From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:34:42 GMT Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 (git popularity) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Matthieu Moy wrote: > Pierre Habouzit writes: >> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:00:57AM +0000, Junichi Uekawa wrote: >>> >>> When I was idly googling around for traces of VCS and popularity, >>> noticed that Git is actually pretty popular.  Googling for 'gitweb' >>> and 'viewcvs' and other comparative web-frontend variants floating in >>> the cyberspace I get these number of hits (in rough estimate) : >>> >>> 10000000 CVS >>> 1000000 SVN >>> 100000 Git >>> 10000 Mercurial / Darcs >>> 1000 Bzr >>> >>> This is crude, and I'm sure someone else will come up with a better >>> estimate. The point is, when there are so many users, people don't >>> read the lists or the changelog, but rely on manuals, and be surprised >>> with this change. >> >>   http://www.google.com/trends?q=svn%2C+git%2C+mercurial%2C+bzr%2C+darcs&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > Debian's popularity contest gives an idea too And Ohloh stack count gives yet another idea. Both Debian popularity counter and number of Ohloh stacks are mentioned in GitSurvey2007[*1*], around question about used SCMs. Google Trends above not yet, and perhaps will not because it is even more skewed than mentioned results, perhaps even more than result of Git _User's_ Survey 2007. [*1*] http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007#head-4ed59e7615e2dc4f4baa8fa0beccde52c93789f8 -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git