Re: VCS popularity

From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Date: Mar 31, 2015, 22:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1503311502240.26359@nftneq.ynat.uz>
In-Reply-To: <CAA787rkKYQ=TJezeLy0f=aGs2GR8ypuxmr2qA2py+hGsC+juVA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:

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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.

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.

David Lang