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Re: VCS popularity

From
Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org>
Date
Mar 31, 2015, 22:30 UTC
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On 1 April 2015 at 00:20, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> writes:
> > 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.
>
> This plots us at a bit over 8000.
>
> What does this number mean, exactly?  Since 2014-08-01, the number of Git
> repositories Ohloh knows about has grown 8000-fold?  Or is it just 80-fold
> (8000%) growth?  Or 8000 more repositories were created?

Yes, relative.svg and relative-zoom.svg show the number of new repositories found by Open Hub. To be specific, these are the numbers:

Bazaar: 75
CVS: 59
Git: 8230
Mercurial: 215
Subversion: 607

These numbers can of course be discussed, but as a source, I believe Open Hub should be one of the more objective ones.

- Øyvind
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  5. Øyvind A. HolmMar 31, 2015
  6. David LangMar 31, 2015
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