# Git is exploding 8 messages from 2011-10-29 to 2011-11-02. Participants: Øyvind A. Holm, Miles Bader, Tay Ray Chuan, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Matthieu Moy, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28794 ## Øyvind A. Holm, 2011-10-29 00:39 Subject: Git is exploding Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAA787r%3DjeBv9moineaJVY%3DurYzEX%2Bd7n23ED-txAGhLS%2BOPbmg%40mail.gmail.com ``` Found an interesting "Popularity Contest" graph on debian.org (via Thomas Bassetto on G+): http://bit.ly/rNxVN0 Very cool indeed. Maybe it's the rise of GitHub, or simply that the user interface is mature enough that also "regular" users feel comfortable with it. Regards, Øyvind ``` ## Miles Bader, 2011-10-29 08:28 Subject: Re: Git is exploding Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CADCnXobzdqF3%3D4fac4V-ELEgD40J8zCsicGLRjh3KmSrt7kwTg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <8762j8jje9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> ``` 2011/10/29 Miles Bader : > That the sharpness of that graph is pretty amazing though; what > happened in 2010Q1? Actually, now I realize what happened: that's the date the Debian "git-core" package was renamed "git" (the "git" package used to be "gnu interactive tools")!! -Miles -- Cat is power.  Cat is peace. ``` ## Tay Ray Chuan, 2011-10-29 08:36 Subject: Re: Git is exploding Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CALUzUxqHNByaV%2BTL2p4wBcwaLNpiaATw14Jgkb1YwcfXxNkMrg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Øyvind A. Holm wrote: > Found an interesting "Popularity Contest" graph on debian.org (via > Thomas Bassetto on G+): > > http://bit.ly/rNxVN0 > > Very cool indeed. Maybe it's the rise of GitHub, or simply that the > user interface is mature enough that also "regular" users feel > comfortable with it. How were the numbers gathered? I looked around the page but gave up. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan ``` ## Ramkumar Ramachandra, 2011-10-29 09:12 Subject: Re: Git is exploding Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CALkWK0%3DXqndnrFDsODt3%2BaGpjrWra1wG4NPXSh8sN8xiKXKhbA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Hi Tay, Tay Ray Chuan writes: > How were the numbers gathered? I looked around the page but gave up. See: http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ -- Ram ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2011-11-01 10:08 Subject: Re: Git is exploding Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqfwi8tary.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: ``` Øyvind A. Holm writes: > Found an interesting "Popularity Contest" graph on debian.org (via > Thomas Bassetto on G+): > > http://bit.ly/rNxVN0 > > Very cool indeed. The recent rise is essentially due to the git-core package renamed to git, and people doing updates: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git%2C+git-core&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 Still, Git is now more popular than SVN for Debian users accepting the popcon data gathering. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2011-11-01 18:39 Subject: Re: Git is exploding Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqty6n1ybs.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: ``` Øyvind A. Holm writes: > Found an interesting "Popularity Contest" graph on debian.org (via > Thomas Bassetto on G+): > > http://bit.ly/rNxVN0 Here are a few other interesting metrics: http://www.ohloh.net/repositories/compare => around 1/4 of the repositories found are Git repositories. Subversion has a bit more than half, and the last 1/4 is essentially CVS. http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Git&project_1=Subversion&project_2=mercurial&submit_2=Go => Git has 2,659 users on ohloh, Subversion has 7,667 and Mercurial has 795. From those numbers, centralized VCS are still dominant, but Git really emerges among DVCS, and is not that far behind. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2011-11-01 20:14 Subject: Re: Git is exploding Message-ID: <7vsjm7lhvg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vsjm7lhvg.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Matthieu Moy writes: > http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Git&project_1=Subversion&project_2=mercurial&submit_2=Go > => Git has 2,659 users on ohloh, Subversion has 7,667 and Mercurial has > 795. Git costs $11M (6 years old) while Subversion costs $6.7M (11 years old)? ``` ## Miles Bader, 2011-11-02 04:51 Subject: Re: Git is exploding Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/buo8vnzgm98.fsf%40dhlpc061.dev.necel.com In-Reply-To: ``` Matthieu Moy writes: > The recent rise is essentially due to the git-core package renamed to > git, and people doing updates: The renaming would obviously explain the extreme initial steepness of the rise, but it shouldn't have much effect on the absolute values or the more recent numbers. [Look at git-core+git, basically it makes the initial part of the graph fill in a bit, getting rid of the weird kink and making it more smoothly exponential but doesn't really change the conclusion.] Probably the main distortion is just the fact that it counts Debian users ... subversion has a lot of stodgy corporate users etc that are unlikely to use Debian! :] --Miles -- Twice, adv. Once too often. ```