Re: VCS popularity

On 1 April 2015 at 00:03, David Lang [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:

quoted

openhub.net (formerly ohloh.net) has an interesting comparison of
the number of public repositories on the net, based on searches of
popular hosting services. This comparison is available at
<https://www.openhub.net/repositories/compare> and shows an
estimated market share between Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial and
Subversion.

I've been monitoring this since 2014-08-05 to see how things were
developing, and it's a good indication of the popularity of the
various version control systems.

number of repositories is an interesting datapoint, but activity in
the repos would be far more interesting. There are a lot of repos of
various types out there that haven't been touched for years.

I do agree on that. Many repositories won't be deleted if they are
converted to other VC systems to avoid breaking links and so on. What I
found pretty interesting is the relative growth between the various
systems. That's why I created the graphs that show creation of new
repositories since August 2014 instead, for example

https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories/blob/master/graph/relative-zoom.svg

- Øyvind