Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:00:57AM +0000, Junichi Uekawa wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> When I was idly googling around for traces of VCS and popularity, >> noticed that Git is actually pretty popular. Googling for 'gitweb' >> and 'viewcvs' and other comparative web-frontend variants floating in >> the cyberspace I get these number of hits (in rough estimate) : >> >> 10000000 CVS >> 1000000 SVN >> 100000 Git >> 10000 Mercurial / Darcs >> 1000 Bzr >> >> This is crude, and I'm sure someone else will come up with a better >> estimate. The point is, when there are so many users, people don't >> read the lists or the changelog, but rely on manuals, and be surprised >> with this change. > > http://www.google.com/trends?q=svn%2C+git%2C+mercurial%2C+bzr%2C+darcs&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 Debian's popularity contest gives an idea too: $ wget 'http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst' $ head -11 by_inst #Format # #<name> is the package name; #<inst> is the number of people who installed this package; #<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly; #<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package # regularly; #<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently; #<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough # information (atime and ctime were 0). #rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer) $ grep -e ' cvs ' -e ' subversion ' -e ' monotone ' -e ' tla ' -e ' mercurial ' -e ' bzr ' -e ' git-core ' -e ' darcs ' by_inst 890 cvs 22659 4326 12754 5576 3 (Steve Mcintyre) 940 subversion 18888 7630 9693 1560 5 (Peter Samuelson) 2423 git-core 3720 1858 992 870 0 (Gerrit Pape) 3480 mercurial 1778 410 914 454 0 (Vincent Danjean) 3989 darcs 1344 300 936 108 0 (Isaac Jones) 4232 bzr 1198 278 372 548 0 (Debian Bazaar Maintainers) 4500 tla 1067 158 830 79 0 (Adam Majer) 7363 monotone 417 96 277 44 0 (Debian Maintainers For Monotone) That's not far from the first estimation above, except that Debian users seem to have abandonned CVS a bit quicker than the rest of the world. Git is still far behind SVN, but also by far the most popular of free distributed VCS, modulo the fact that 78.42% of statistics are biaised ;-). -- Matthieu - 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
