Re: VCS popularity

2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15 · open the first message on its own page

Re: VCS popularity

From: Øyvind A. Holm <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:04:20

On 1 April 2015 at 00:20, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
Øyvind A. Holm [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
The graphs are pretty interesting:

https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories/blob/master/graph/relative.svg
  Graphs of relative growth between the various version control systems.
This plots us at a bit over 8000.

What does this number mean, exactly?  Since 2014-08-01, the number of Git
repositories Ohloh knows about has grown 8000-fold?  Or is it just 80-fold
(8000%) growth?  Or 8000 more repositories were created?
Yes, relative.svg and relative-zoom.svg show the number of new repositories
found by Open Hub. To be specific, these are the numbers:

Bazaar: 75
CVS: 59
Git: 8230
Mercurial: 215
Subversion: 607

These numbers can of course be discussed, but as a source, I believe Open Hub
should be one of the more objective ones.

- Øyvind

Re: VCS popularity

From: David Lang <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:04:20

On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
On 1 April 2015 at 00:20, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Øyvind A. Holm [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
The graphs are pretty interesting:

https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories/blob/master/graph/relative.svg
  Graphs of relative growth between the various version control systems.
This plots us at a bit over 8000.

What does this number mean, exactly?  Since 2014-08-01, the number of Git
repositories Ohloh knows about has grown 8000-fold?  Or is it just 80-fold
(8000%) growth?  Or 8000 more repositories were created?
Yes, relative.svg and relative-zoom.svg show the number of new repositories
found by Open Hub. To be specific, these are the numbers:

Bazaar: 75
CVS: 59
Git: 8230
Mercurial: 215
Subversion: 607

These numbers can of course be discussed, but as a source, I believe Open Hub
should be one of the more objective ones.
How many of these 8230 git repositories are duplicates of each other on github 
(to pick a specific example).

the distributed nature of DVCS systems is going to inflate their count vs 
non-distributed VCS systems where there is only one copy.

I believe that Git encourages making personal copies public more than Mercurial 
does (with github being the extreme case)

David Lang
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