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POPopularity of Git/Mercurial/Bazaar vs. which to recommend
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copied!<p>Going by the number of questions on this site for these three distributed version control systems, it seems like Git either </p> <ol> <li>is more popular, or </li> <li>is more difficult (hence requiring more questions), or </li> <li>has more features (hence requiring more questions).</li> </ol> <p>Or most probably a combination of the three. (Let's say that popularity on this site equates to popularity at large.) Here are the numbers:</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vQ4i0.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vQ4i0.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p> <p>It's not entirely satisfactory having three competing yet largely equivalent open source products to choose from. Personally I use Git and I'm fine with the other two. But when it comes to recommending one system over the others, I'd like to ask: can we start recommending one safely yet?</p> <p><strong>Comments from mid-2009</strong>: The recent historical popularity of Subversion is clearly reflected by the number of questions, indicating at least a small tipping of the scales towards Git over the Mercurial or Bazaar.</p> <p><strong>Comments from mid-2010</strong>: Look at that huge relative increase in Mercurial numbers. Obviously only two-data points aren't enough to show a trend, but it looks like Git and Subversion are largely entrenched, Mercurial has seen a lot of growth, and Bazaar has remained relatively quiet.</p> <p><strong>Brief comment, mid-2011</strong>: Can we just call Git the winner? <code>:)</code> No, I accept the argument that number of questions is not equivalent to popularity. Numbers sure are strong, though. </p> <hr> <p>Code to reproduce the above plot:</p> <pre><code>import datetime as dt import matplotlib.pyplot as plt dates = [ "01/06/2009", "01/07/2010", "01/07/2011", "01/07/2012", "01/07/2013", "01/07/2014", "01/07/2015", "01/07/2016", "01/06/2017", "28/08/2018", ] x = [dt.datetime.strptime(d, "%d/%m/%Y").date() for d in dates] git = [726, 3725, 9225, 17523, 27862, 41478, 55315, 71056, 86958, 102362] svn = [2353, 5323, 9028, 12687, 15587, 18846, 21209, 23037, 24692, 25525] mercurial = [169, 1120, 2765, 4221, 5230, 6030, 6651, 7134, 7524, 7765] bazaar = [50, 159, 252, 351, 425, 483, 506, 525, 534, 539] ax = plt.gca() ax.grid() plt.plot(x, git, label="[git]") plt.plot(x, svn, label="[svn]") plt.plot(x, mercurial, label="[mercurial]") plt.plot(x, bazaar, label="[bazaar]") plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate() plt.ylim(0) plt.legend() # plt.show() plt.savefig("comparison.png", transparent=True, bbox_inches="tight") </code></pre>

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