http://bouillon.math.usu.ru/files/linux-tarball-evol.png I plotted sizes of official linux kernel tarballs found at ftp://ftp.kernel.org against their dates. (Yep, the methodology is extremely dirty.) Long story short: the normal dynamics of Linux development is accelerated growth. Apparently, in the end of 2002, development hits some limit, probably a scalability problem. It returns to the accelerated mode in mid-2005, which event coincides with the introduction of git (pointed by the arrow). Speculation: indeed, the git lets development scale. It is clear that git has changed the release pattern. But was it the reason why the development (and tarball size) returned to accelerated growth? Another possible interpretation is that 2.5->2.6 stage involved too much of reengineering, so "normal" incremental development slowed down for a while. Do git developers have any opinion on that? Thanks! -- Victor -- 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
