Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

quoted text
> 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&...

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
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