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I think it's partly an artifact: due to a naming conflict, the git package in Debian used to be named "git-core" and was renamed "git" around then.

• deleted 15y ago
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• Groxx 15y ago
  Looks like that might be the case, if you combine the graphs of git-core and git, you get a roughly-exponential growth shape: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git+git-core&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git+git-core&...
  • mlinksva 15y ago
    http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git++git-core+mercurial+bzr+darcs+cvs+subversion+monotone&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git++git-core... With CVS, darcs, monotone also interesting.
    • Groxx 15y ago
      I keep tacking RCS onto the ends of these, too :) It keeps surprising me - Mercurial passed RCS ~ last June, and Bazaar passed it in roughly June of this year. It gets a lot of usage still.
      • Estragon 15y ago
        I use it pretty often for casual alteration of configuration files.
        • mkopinsky 15y ago
          Why do you prefer it to git or hg for this use case?
• spullara 15y ago
  This whole article has been rendered silly based on this observation. Yes git's popularity has increased and passed subversion but it was a long time coming and not an explosion at all.