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Re: Git User's Survey 2009 partial summary, part 2 - from first 10

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NSNicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date
Aug 18, 2009, 15:54 UTC
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<20090818155452.GA12938@vidovic>
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<200908171224.44686.jnareb@gmail.com>
The 17/08/09, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Git User's Survey 2009 partial summary, part 2 - git difficulty,
> proficiency, uses, install, OS, editors.
Thanks for these partial summaries.
Show 15 quoted lines
> 3) Have you found Git easy to learn?
> 4) Have you found Git easy to use?
>    (Choice - Single answer)
> 
> ================================================
> Answer            | to learn [%] |   to use [%]
> ------------------------------------------------
> Very easy         |          4%  |          9%
> Easy              |         20%  |         36%
> Reasonably easy   |         55%  |         45%
> Hard              |         19%  |          8%
> Very hard         |          2%  |          1%
> ------------------------------------------------
> Total respondents |        2942  |        2959
> ================================================
<...>
Show 6 quoted lines
> What's interesting is comparing (percentage) results for questions
> 3. and 4.; how hard is git to learn versus how hard is to use.  It
> seems like Git is reasonably easy to learn, and reasonably easy to
> easy to use.  So it looks like Git just have somewhat steep learning
> curve, and the difficulty to learn pays in being more powerful to
> use.

I believe it would be interesting to know who (from the question 6.) think what later. We may expect that people of the grade 4 and 5 ("can offer advice" and "know it very well") underestimate the difficulty to learn Git.

Also (and as you said), this "Git's users" survey won't have answers from unsatisfied users who left Git. We can't rate the number of users who left Git because they found it too much hard to learn.

Show 17 quoted lines
> 6) Rate your own proficiency with Git:
>    (Choice - Single answer)
> 
> You can think of it as 1-5 numerical grade of your proficiency in Git.
> 
> ================================================
> Proficiency               | resp [%] | resp [n]
> ------------------------------------------------
> 1. novice                 |       4% |      114
> 2. casual, needs advice   |      17% |      520
> 3. everyday use           |      38% |     1138
> 4. can offer advice       |      34% |     1020
> 5. know it very well      |       6% |      192
> --------------------------+---------------------
> Total respondents         |                2984
> Skipped this question     |                 105
> ================================================
-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht
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  4. Nicolas SebrechtAug 18, 2009
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  6. learning curve (aka Git User's Survey 2009 partial summary, part 2 - from first 10)Nicolas Sebrecht, Aug 18, 2009

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