Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2009 - second trial run, and question about announcing it

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 3, 2009, 00:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1voyzkcg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200907030130.24417.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> 8. How do/did you obtain Git (install and/or upgrade)?
>     * binary package (includes automatic updates in usual situation)
>     * source package or script
>     * source tarball
>     * pull from (main) repository
>
> Explanation: binary package covers pre-compiled binary (e.g. from rpm
> or deb binary packages); source package covers things like deb-src and
> SRPMS/src.rpm; source script is meant to cover installation in
> source-based distributions, like 'emerge' in Gentoo, and it includes
> automatic update in source-based Linux distributions.
>
> Note that this question is multiple choices question because one can
> install Git in different ways on different machines or on different
> operating systems.

Could we please have "None of the above" here ;-)?  Just kidding.

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> 17. How often do you use the following forms of git commands
>     or extra git tools? (continued)
> ...
> Note: git-subtree is managed out of tree, as a separate project (not
> in git.git repository, not even in contrib/ area).

Is there a reason why this particular out-of-tree script was singled out, and no other goodies are listed?

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> 23. How do you compare current version with version from year ago?
>     * better
>     * no changes
>     * worse
>     * cannot say

Which version was that? v1.5.6? v1.6.0? I think you would want to explicitly say v1.6.0 (mid Aug 2008), and it might even make sense to link to a list of changes since then (relnotes to 1.6.[123], at least, but perhaps more condensed).

I see you dropped "How did you hear about git" from the questionaire. It was a good way to spot which response was from Linus who answered "I wrote it" to the question ;-).