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Bazaar is conspicuously missing. My guess is that "other" is mostly Bazaar. Aside: would've been neat to see a "version control by OS" pie chart for GNU/Linux.

gecko 16y ago
That's because it was conspicuously missing as an answer from our respondents.
laskito 16y ago
Don't forget Fossil
rm445 16y ago
If the survey was done properly, then 'other' consists of lots of different things and bzr is just a small chunk of it not worth dealing with separately. If the survey was done badly, with an 'other' option with no way to write in what you use, then potentially all of the 'other' block could be bzr. It would just be left out by the survey writer not having heard of it.
durin42 16y ago
I'm not so sure. All but one of the Bazaar users I know uses it only because Canonical and/or GNU* require it. * Emacs uses Bazaar for "branding" reasons IIRC.
alkaramba 16y ago
We got exactly four responses for Bazaar and one for Fossil out of nearly a thousand. They are just tiny in comparison to the rest.
- riffraff 16y ago
  given that 'others' does not seem to be 0.5% of the chart: what else is in there?
  - stonemetal 16y ago
    clear case, and source gear are the only two I can think of that might make the list.
pnathan 16y ago
There's also ClearCase, which I believe is popular in Big Iron Enterprise shops.
glenjamin 16y ago
I keep seeing posts about large organisations (off the top of my head, python and mozilla) consider bzr, and then discount it. This mostly seems to be because of its performance. Having used git and bzr extensively (and a bit of mercurial), I've found it's performance to be perfectly fine for general use on reasonably sized projects, and the ease-of-use to be far superior. Figuring out how to get Bazaar to do something you haven't done before is much easier than trying to track down a Git feature. Although I will admit that Git is improving in this regard, while Bazaar continues to improve it's performance and focus on interoperability. Anyway, in summary: I really don't get why more people aren't using Bazaar.

gecko 16y ago

That's because it was conspicuously missing as an answer from our respondents.

laskito 16y ago

Don't forget Fossil

rm445 16y ago

If the survey was done properly, then 'other' consists of lots of different things and bzr is just a small chunk of it not worth dealing with separately. If the survey was done badly, with an 'other' option with no way to write in what you use, then potentially all of the 'other' block could be bzr. It would just be left out by the survey writer not having heard of it.

durin42 16y ago

I'm not so sure. All but one of the Bazaar users I know uses it only because Canonical and/or GNU* require it. * Emacs uses Bazaar for "branding" reasons IIRC.

alkaramba 16y ago

We got exactly four responses for Bazaar and one for Fossil out of nearly a thousand. They are just tiny in comparison to the rest.

riffraff 16y ago
given that 'others' does not seem to be 0.5% of the chart: what else is in there?
- stonemetal 16y ago
  clear case, and source gear are the only two I can think of that might make the list.

pnathan 16y ago

There's also ClearCase, which I believe is popular in Big Iron Enterprise shops.

glenjamin 16y ago

I keep seeing posts about large organisations (off the top of my head, python and mozilla) consider bzr, and then discount it. This mostly seems to be because of its performance. Having used git and bzr extensively (and a bit of mercurial), I've found it's performance to be perfectly fine for general use on reasonably sized projects, and the ease-of-use to be far superior. Figuring out how to get Bazaar to do something you haven't done before is much easier than trying to track down a Git feature. Although I will admit that Git is improving in this regard, while Bazaar continues to improve it's performance and focus on interoperability. Anyway, in summary: I really don't get why more people aren't using Bazaar.