Re: VCS popularity

From: Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Date: Mar 31, 2015, 22:14 UTC
Message-ID: <CAA787rm1qfaLb=ZAvZ19h+_EBv-a3S7xV=0B6kMfjYpKsAbNcg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1503311502240.26359@nftneq.ynat.uz>

On 1 April 2015 at 00:03, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:

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> On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
> > 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.
>
> number of repositories is an interesting datapoint, but activity in
> the repos would be far more interesting. There are a lot of repos of
> various types out there that haven't been touched for years.

I do agree on that. Many repositories won't be deleted if they are converted to other VC systems to avoid breaking links and so on. What I found pretty interesting is the relative growth between the various systems. That's why I created the graphs that show creation of new repositories since August 2014 instead, for example

https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories/blob/master/graph/relative-zoom.svg

- Øyvind