From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 20:07:30 GMT
Subject: Re: looking for "market share" analysis of SCMs.
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0805211556380.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <200805212139.25909.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> onsdagen den 21 maj 2008 07.21.50 skrev Sverre Rabbelier:
> > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Martin Langhoff
> > <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Actually, if we define the "market" to be DSCM, and the timeframe to
> > > be existence of the git-core package, this graph of installs is quite
> > > useful:
> > > http://tinyurl.com/4uemg2
> > 
> > Hehe, that feels a bit like manually favoring the odds in our benefit,
> > but it's fun to see how git is the most popular DSCM since 2007 ;).
> 
> Diff+tar+patch should be counted too. http://tinyurl.com/3frawy Seems
> far more popilar than anything else added together, including cvs and
> other subversive systems.

I think tar and diff are necessary to install git-core or any other .deb, 
so it's unsurprising that they've got a 100% market share by that metric. 
Until Debian switches to a git-based package format, git's not going to 
catch up to those...

On the other hand, the "vote" value for patch is a reasonable metric, and 
it's been steadily close to but above the version control systems.

	-Daniel
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