From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:45:03 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS popularity
Message-ID: <vpqiodgnkcg.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1503311615430.26359@nftneq.ynat.uz>

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
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/