Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary, part 5 - other SCM

From: david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
Date: Sep 11, 2008, 22:51 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0809111543580.15169@asgard.lang.hm>
In-Reply-To: <200809112214.18366.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> A bit suprising for me is high place of Perforce.  Another strange
> thing (and a bit alarming) is that MS Visual SourceSafe has higher
> place than Monotone; but that might be caused by different design and
> different target groups of Monotone and Git, which might have caused
> that the communities have almost no overlap; people choose either Git
> or Monotone, one or the other.  BitKeeper has also a very low number
> of active users among Git users... but that is not that strange,
> considering history.

I think you are making the wrong assumption here.

someone may use CVS becouse they contribute to a project that is only availabe via CVS

someone may use Perforce becouse that is the VCS that their company uses

if you do commercial development with windows you are almsot going to be required to use MS VSS.

you are looking at it from the point of view of 'which VCS would you select for a new project', but that would be a very different question.

I find it interesting that the number of people who use git and the other DVCS systems in so small. Is this becouse the 'market share' of those other systems is small? or becouse people who learn git aren't willing to put up with other systems (or vice-versa)? or is there some other trend or tendancy that makes people who select one DVCS more likely to work on similar projects, so people interested in those types of projects will generally just see a single DVCS system

David Lang