From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New sync'd branch Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:38:24 +0300 Message-ID: <87d46h95pr.fsf@iki.fi> References: <878wh9qaku.fsf@sphinx.net.ru> <83praic5r5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251351955 6134 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2009 05:45:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier , dima@sphinx.net.ru To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 07:45:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MgXnt-0005mt-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:45:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56695 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgXns-0007zv-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgXni-0007zb-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgXnd-0007ym-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:45:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58535 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgXnc-0007yh-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:51310 helo=kirsi2.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgXgy-0001Vh-PB; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:38:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by kirsi2.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 4A77692A00CF11E7; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:38:25 +0300 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgXgm-0001uc-RK; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:38:24 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:47:11 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114666 Archived-At: On 2009-08-27 13:47 (+0900), Miles Bader wrote: > [Anyway, anybody that hopes to do much free-software hacking should > learn git, since it's wildly popular in the free-software world...] Yes, Git is becoming / is already the standard distributed version control tool in the free-software world. I love to play with Debian popularity contest graphs so here's one comparing Git, Bazaar, Mercurial, CVS and Subversion: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git-core%2Cbzr%2Cmercurial%2Ccvs%2Csubversion&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&from_date=2006-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 This graph is not about installations, it's about "vote" which means that the executable files in the package has atime value updated within certain period of time. It can be translated roughly to "how much the tool is used" but of course there are many possible inaccuracies. Another interesting thing is to compare the number of installations and number of people who actually use the package. About 61% of the people who have installed git-core package use it regularly. The same number is only 25% for bzr package. (n% = vote / inst * 100) http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=git-core http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=bzr