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Re: VCS popularity

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Apr 1, 2015, 11:45 UTC
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David Lang <david@lang.hm> writes:
> How many of these 8230 git repositories are duplicates of each other
> on github (to pick a specific example).

Hard to tell exactly, but OpenHub does a reasonably good job at identifying real projects and mirrors of a master. Distributed systems probably artificially get a higher count, but it's not as bad as "each fork of a project counts" at least.

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Matthieu Moy
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