On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
On 1 April 2015 at 00:20, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
Øyvind A. Holm <su...@sunbase.org> writes:
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
