This is proposed second version of questions for upcoming "Git User's Survey 2009". It contains compared to previous created version, a few fixes to phrasing of questions, moving some answers from one question to another and removing (some of) duplicate answers, and a few extra comments and explanations. Thanks to Johan Herland, Peter Baumann, Felipe Contreras, Graham Perks and others in previous GitSurvey2009 thread for their feedback and comments. The main visible difference from precious version is replacing question 21. "How does Git compare to other SCM tools you have used?" was replaced by "In you opinion, which areas in Git needs improvement?" suggested by Felipe, and question 29. "Should Git User's Survey be repeated next year?" was replaced by "How did you heard about this Git User's Survey?" The last replacements reminds me of the problem of announcing this survey. Where to submit note announcing "Git User's Survey 2009" (tentative date of survey is 15 July 2009 -- 15 September 2009)? How such note should look like? The *test* version of this year survey can be now found at the following URL (as in previous year, we use Survs.com) http://www.survs.com/survey?id=2PIMZGU0&channel=TFN2Y52K7Y ATTENTION: All data in test survey would be deleted when survey would start for real! Below there is rendered form of survey ................................................................ Git User's Survey 2009 This survey is anonymous, but all information that the users provide (raw data) will be publicly available on the Git Wiki, at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2009, to allow for independent analysis. Note that you may skip questions as you like. You can also return to this survey after submission, and correct it, or fill more questions later. This feature makes this survey to require to have COOKIES ENABLED, at least for this site, to be able to submit. About you ~~~~~~~~~ 1. What country do you live in? 2. How old are you (in years)? Getting started with Git ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. Have you found Git easy to learn? * Very easy * Easy * Reasonably easy (average) * Hard * Very hard 4. Have you found Git easy to use? * Very easy * Easy * Reasonably easy (average) * Hard * Very hard 5. Which Git version(s) are you using? * pre 1.3 * 1.3.x * 1.4.x * 1.5.x * 1.6.x * minor (maintenance) release 1.x.y.z * 'master' branch of official git repository * 'next' branch of official git repository * other, please specify You can find git version by using "git --version" or "git version". "Minor release" is additional specification, so if you for example use git version 1.6.3.3, please check both "1.6.x" and "minor release". 6. Rate your own proficiency with Git: * 1. novice * 2. casual, needs advice * 3. everyday use * 4. can offer advice * 5. know it very well You can think of it as 1-5 numerical grade of your proficiency in Git. How you use Git 7. I use Git for (check all that apply): * work projects * unpaid projects * proprietary project * OSS development * private (unpublished) code * code (programming) * personal data * documents * static website * web app * sharing data or sync * backup * backend for wiki, blog, or other web app * managing configuration files * frontend to other SCM (e.g. git-svn) * other (please specify) Note that above choices are neither orthogonal nor exclusive. You might want to check multiple answers even for a single repository. 8. How do/did you obtain Git (install and/or upgrade)? * binary package (includes automatic updates in usual situation) * source package or script * source tarball * pull from (main) repository Explanation: binary package covers pre-compiled binary (e.g. from rpm or deb binary packages); source package covers things like deb-src and SRPMS/src.rpm; source script is meant to cover installation in source-based distributions, like 'emerge' in Gentoo, and it includes automatic update in source-based Linux distributions. Note that this question is multiple choices question because one can install Git in different ways on different machines or on different operating systems. 9. What operating system do you use Git on? * Linux * *BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.) * MacOS X (Darwin) * MS Windows/Cygwin * MS Windows/msysGit (MINGW) * OpenSolaris * other Unix * Other, please specify On Unix-based operating system you can get the name of operation system by running 'uname'. 10. What do you use to edit contents under version control with Git? What kind of editor, IDE or RAD you use working with Git? * simple text editor * programmers editor * IDE or RAD * WYSIWYG tool * other kind - please specify * "simple text editor" option includes editors such as pico, nano, joe, Notepad, * "programmets editor" option includes editors such as Emacs/XEmacs, Vim, TextMate, SciTE (syntax highlighting, autoindentation, integration with other programmers tools, etc.) * "IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and RAD (Rapid Application Development)" option includes tools such as Eclipse, NetBeans IDE, IntelliJ IDE, MS Visual Studio, KDevelop, Anjuta, XCode, Code::Blocks but also tools such as Quanta+, BlueFish or Screem (for editing HTML, CSS, PHP etc.), and Kile or LEd for LaTeX. * "WYSIWYG tools" option includes word processors such as MS Office or OpenOffice.org, but also tools such as Adobe Acrobat (for PDF) or GIMP (for images), or WYSIWYG DTP tools such as QuarkXPress, PageMaker or Scribus, or WYSIWYG HTML editors such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver or KompoZer. 11. What Git interfaces, implementations, frontends and tools do you use? * git (core) commandline * JGit (Java implementation) * library / language binding (e.g. Grit or Dulwich) * Cogito (DEPRECATED) * Easy Git * Pyrite * StGIT * Guilt * TopGit * pg aka Patchy Git (DEPRECATED) * gitk * git gui * QGit * GitView * Giggle * GitNub * GitX * git-cola * tig * TortoiseGit * Git Extensions * git-cheetah * git-instaweb * git-sh * Gitosis (as admin) * repo (to manage multiple repositories) * editor/IDE VC integration * filemanager integration / shell extension (any) * graphical history viewer/browser (any) * graphical commit tool (any) * graphical diff tool * graphical merge tool * graphical blame or pickaxe tool * my own scripts * Other (please specify) Here graphics diff tool means tools such as Kompare, and graphical merge tool means tools such as Meld and KDiff3. Those answers include graphical merge and diff tools used by programmers editors and IDEs. "graphical history browser (any)" covers tools such as gitk, QGit, Giggle, tig etc., but also built-in git commands such as "git log --graph" and "git show-branch". If you use one of mentioned tools _as_ history browser, mark both a tool and "graphical history browser (any)"; if you use some graphical history viewer not listed here, please both mark this answer and specify it in the "other tool" answer. Similarly for other answers marked "(any)". 12. What tool (or kind of tool) would you like to have Git support in? (e.g. IDE, RAD, editors, continuous integration, software hosting, bugtracker, merge tool...) (this includes language bindings and Git (re)implementations) free-form essay 13. Which git hosting site do you use for your projects? (Please check only hosting sites where you publish/push to) * repo.or.cz * GitHub * Gitorious * Savannah * SourceForge * Assembla * Unfuddle * kernel.org * freedesktop.org * Alioth * Fedora Hosted * git hosting site for set of related projects (e.g. OLPC) * generic site without git support * self hosted * Other (please specify) 14. How do you fetch/get changes from upstream repositories? * git protocol (e.g. git://example.com/repo.git) * ssh (e.g. ssh://example.com/repo.git or user@xxxxxxxxxxx:/repo.git) * http (e.g. http://example.com/repo.git) * rsync (DEPRECATED) (e.g. rsync://example.com/repo.git) * same filesystem (e.g. /path/to/repo.git or file:///path/to/repo.git) * via git-bundle * foreign SCM import / script like git-svn * Other, please specify This question asks about how do you get changes (updates) from projects you follow into your local repository. It is not about how do you get latest version of Git. Fetching (or rather cloning) via bundle could mean that project publishes ready for download bundles to reduce traffic and load on server (download of bundle can be resumed, git-clone currently cannot; one can also distribute bundle using P2P). 15. How do you publish/propagate your changes? * push * pull request (+ any form of announcement / notification) * format-patch + email * format-patch + other (e.g. reviewboard, issue tracker or forum) * git bundle * git-svn (to Subversion repository) * git-p4 (to Perforce repository) * foreign SCM interface (other than mentioned above) * other - please specify Publishing via bundle could mean sending bundle via email, or posting it on review board (or forum). 16. How often do you use the following forms of git commands or extra git tools? never | rarely | sometimes | often git add -i / -p git add -u / -A git am git am -i git apply git apply --whitespace=fix git archive git bisect git bisect run <cmd> git annotate git gui blame git blame git blame -L <start>,<end> etc. git bundle git cherry git cherry-pick git cherry-pick -n / --no-commit git citool git clean git add + git commit git commit -a git commit <file>... git commit -i <file>... git commit --amend git cvsexportcommit git cvsserver git daemon git daemon (pushing enabled) git difftool git ... --dirstat git fetch [<options>] git filter-branch git format-patch git grep git imap-send git instaweb git log --grep/--author/... git log -S<string> (pickaxe search) git log --graph git merge git merge with strategy git merge --squash git mergetool git pull (no remote) git pull --rebase [<options>] git pull <remote> git pull <URL> <ref> git push This question (and its continuation below) is entirely optional. 17. How often do you use the following forms of git commands or extra git tools? (continued) never | rarely | sometimes | often git relink git rebase git rebase -i git reflog or git log -g git remote git remote update git request-pull git revert git send-email git show-branch git shortlog git shortlog -s git stash git stash --keep-index git submodule git subtree git svn git whatchanged git gui gitk Explanation: "Rarely" means that you use mentioned form of command either rarely, or you have used it only a few times. Questions 16 and 17 (its continuation) are purely optional (as are the rest of questions in survey). If you don't feel like filling this questions, please skip them. Note: git-subtree is managed out of tree, as a separate project (not in git.git repository, not even in contrib/ area). 18. Which of the following features have you used? * git bundle (off-line transport) * eol conversion (crlf) * gitattributes * mergetool and/or difftool, or custom diff/merge driver * submodules (subprojects) * subtree merge (optionally git-subtree) * separate worktree / core.worktree * multiple worktrees (git-new-worktree) * alternates mechanism (sharing object database) * stash (optionally "git stash --keep-index") * shallow clone (e.g. "git clone --depth=<n>") * detaching HEAD (e.g. "git checkout HEAD^0") * interactive rebase (small scale history editing) * interactive commit / per-hunk comitting / partial commit * commit message templates * git-filter-branch or equivalent (large history rewriting) * bisect (optionally "git bisect run <script>") * committing with dirty tree (keeping some changes uncommitted) * non-default hooks (from contrib/hooks/ or other) * shell completion of commands * git-aware shell prompt * git aliases, shell aliases for git, or own git scripts * Other, please specify 19. What features would you like implemented in Git? What features are you missing? free-form essay EXAMPLES: partial / subtree checkout, commit annotations aka git-notes, refs/replace mechanism, "smart" HTTP protocol (git via HTTP), resomable clone/fetch, lazy clone (on demand downloading of objects), wholesame directory rename detection, syntax highlighting and/or side-by-side diffs in gitweb, graphical merge tool integrated with git-gui, etc. What you think of Git ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 20. Overall, how happy are you with Git? * unhappy * not so happy * happy * very happy * completely ecstatic 21. In you opinion, which areas in Git needs improvement? Please state your preference. don't need | a little | some | much user-interface documentation performance more features tools (e.g. GUI) localization (translation) Changes in Git (since year ago, or since you started using it) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 22. Did you participate in previous Git User's Surveys? * in 2006 * in 2007 * in 2008 23. How do you compare current version with version from year ago? * better * no changes * worse * cannot say Documentation. Getting help, staying in touch. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 24. How useful have you found the following forms of Git documentation? never used | not useful | somewhat useful | useful Git Wiki on-line help help distributed with git * Git Wiki can be found at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki * on-line help includes, among others, Git Homepage (http://git-scm.com) and "Git Community Book" (http://book.git-scm.com) * help distributed with git include manpages, manual, tutorials, HOWTO, release notes, technical documentation, contrib/examples/ 25. Have you tried to get Git help from other people? * Yes * No 26. What channel did you use to request help? * git mailing list (git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) * "Git for Human Beings" Google Group * IRC (#git) * IRC (other git/SCM related, e.g. #github) * request in blog post or on wiki * asking git guru/colleague * project mailing list, or IRC, or forum * Twitter or other microblogging platform * instant messenging (IM) like XMPP/Jabber * StackOverflow * other (please specify) 27. If yes, did you get these problems resolved quickly and to your liking? * Yes * No * Somewhat 28. Which communication channels do you use? Do you read the mailing list, or watch IRC channel? * git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (main) * Git for Human Beings (Google Group) * msysGit * #git IRC channel * #github or #gitorious IRC channel * #revctrl IRC channel About this survey. Open forum ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 29. How did you heard about this Git User's Survey? * git mailing list * git-related mailing list (msysGit, Git for Human Beings, ...) * mailing list or forum of some project * #git IRC channel topic * announcement on IRC channel * git homepage * git wiki * git hosting site * software-related web site * news web site or social news site * blog * other kind of web site * Twitter or other microblogging platform * other - please specify 30. What other comments or suggestions do you have that are not covered by the questions above? free-form essay If you have cookies enabled, you can always submit partially filled survey, and return to your answers at later time, completing it later. ...................................................................... -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html