You can see the results of "Git User's Survey 2010" at Git Wiki: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2010 You can also view them and analyse using provided filters at Survs.com: https://www.survs.com/results/33Q0OZZE/MV653KSPI2 http://tinyurl.com/GitSurvey2010Analysis .................................................................. Below there is very short summary of some of the results of "Git User's Survey 2010" Total responders: 8841 (compared to less that 4000 in 2009) About you ^^^^^^^^^ Most responders are from USA among other coutries (31%), followed by Germany, UK and France (10% to 6%). Most responders are from Europe among other continents (50%), with North America second (36%). Most responders are between 26 and 30 years old; most common age (mode) is 25 years old. Youngest user who answered this question is 10 years old (next oldest is 12 years old), oldest is 87 (next to oldest is 81). Getting started with Git ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Responders say that Git is reasonably easy to learn, and easy to reasonably easy to use; it is easier to use than to learn. More than 80% use git version 1.7.x at least at one place. There are 12 unfortunate stragglers who use pre 1.3.x version. Responders fall somewhere between 'everyday use' (39%) and 'can offer advice' (32%) proficiency. How you use Git ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Most people (74%) obtain/install Git at least at one place using ready binary packages. GNU/Linux dominates among operating systems used, then there is MacOS X, then MS Windows (where msysGit is preferred to Cygwin). Almost 9% of responders use JGit. gitk dominates among graphical tools (58%), GitX is second (28%), closely followed by git-gui (25%). The leader among git hosting sites is (like in previous years) GitHub with 77% of responders (up from 62% in 2009); "self hosted" is second with 44%, but it is quite lower than 57% in 2009. The high position of GitHub migh be at least partially caused by the fact that GitHub has good announcement system for new features, which was used to announce "Git User's Survey 2010" to GitHub users. git:// protocol and SSH are almost the same often used to fetch changes: git protocol with 78%, SSH with 71%. Only 41% responders use HTTP for fetching (somewhere). Most popular feature, by quite a large margin, is *stash*, with two thirds (66.4%) of responses. "git stash" first appeared in git version 1.5.3, from September 2007. Second most common used feature is "shell completion of commands", with more than half of responses (52.0%). Then there are, with percentage of responses from 40% to 45%, comitting with dirty tree and interactive / partial commit, interactive rebase, and aliases (git aliases, shell aliases, one's own git scripts). More than third of responses have also git-aware shell prompt with 35%, and submodules with 33%. Least used, with only 0.5% of responses, is "git cvsserver". One of the most requested features is native support for tracking empty directories, with 35.2%, followed closely by request for '-n' like option for each command, which would print what would happen, but do not actually execute command, with 33.5%. What do you think of Git ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Most responders are "very happy" with Git, and this answer seems to be a center of responses. User interface, tools and documentation need improvement; performance rather doesn't need to be improved; people mostly don't care about improving communities or localization (but please remember that this survey was in English, and announced on English-speaking sites / lists). Documentation. Getting help. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It looks like we have good community surrounding Git, if 62% of Git questions are resolved quickly and accurately, and only 7% couldn't get quick response and one to their liking. Those results are very similar to those from 2009 survey. Most used way to request help about Git (help 'channel') is to simply ask somebody better versed in Git personally, with almost 60%; it is the same result as in previous surveys. This year StackOverflow (a Q&A site) came as second with 37%, moving up from 17% last year when it was a new thing (!!!). The #git IRC channel with usually fast real-time response is now third at 18%, down from 31% in 2009 and 37% in 2008. Together with other IRC channels (git/SCM related with 7%, other with 11%) it comes up to 34%, close to StackOverflow 37%. One wonders how disruptive http://chat.stackoverflow.com would be... Close fourth, with almost 18% of responses is instant messaging (XMPP/Jabber, Google Talk, AIM, QQ, ICQ, etc.), also with real-time response; 2009 survey had similarly 19% of IM users. -- 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