From: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:56:44 GMT
Subject: VCS popularity
Message-ID: <CAA787rkKYQ=TJezeLy0f=aGs2GR8ypuxmr2qA2py+hGsC+juVA@mail.gmail.com>

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