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VCS popularity

From
Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Date
Mar 31, 2015, 21:56 UTC
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openhub.net (formerly ohloh.net) has an interesting comparison of the number of public repositories on the net, based on searches of popular hosting services. This comparison is available at <https://www.openhub.net/repositories/compare> and shows an estimated market share between Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial and Subversion.

I've been monitoring this since 2014-08-05 to see how things were developing, and it's a good indication of the popularity of the various version control systems.

I've created a repository at <https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories> where the project scripts and data files are stored, along with graphs in SVG format.

The graphs are pretty interesting:
https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories/blob/master/graph/relative.svg
  Graphs of relative growth between the various version control systems.
https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories/blob/master/graph/relative-zoom.svg
  Zoomed-in version of relative.svg. Git goes through the ceiling.
https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories/blob/master/graph/repos.svg
  Total number of repositories.
- Øyvind
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