From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git version statistics
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:20:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <981b755b-ca86-4320-a4fc-8aa28caa099d@mail> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120531114801.GA21367@sigill.intra.peff.net>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:48:02 AM
> Subject: git version statistics
>
> Just for fun, I've assembled a few statistics on git client versions
> that hit github.com.
Certainly an interesting read... Thanks!
> The interesting thing to me is how spiky it is, and where the spikes
> fall. I would expect to see a spike around the highest maint release
> of each major version (so v1.7.8.6, for example, with many fewer
> installs of v1.7.8.5, v1.7.8.4, and so forth). But that's not what
> happens. The most popular v1.7.8.x versions are .3 and .2, and hardly
> anybody bothered to move to v1.7.8.6.
I wonder if the spikes correlate with time between releases? For open source projects I tend to download the most recent when setting up a new machine (or after encountering a nasty bug), and then not upgrade for a while. So in that mode of operation, releases that are "the newest" for the longest would get more users... (though at least on my Mac the homebrew project is helping me break the habit and stay more up-to-date)
> I can only assume these are skewed by some widely-used binary
> distribution being locked onto particular versions (e.g., the spike at
> v1.7.2.5 represents Debian stable).
... but then again, that's probably a better reason for large swaths of users to have a fixed version...
Thanks again for the interesting read.
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-31 11:48 git version statistics Jeff King
2012-05-31 12:00 ` Jeff King
2012-05-31 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-01 9:03 ` Jeff King
2012-06-01 14:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-02 16:32 ` Jeff King
2012-06-02 16:59 ` Tomas Carnecky
2012-06-02 18:49 ` Jeff King
2012-06-02 18:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] move git_version_string into version.c Jeff King
2012-06-02 19:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] version: add git_user_agent function Jeff King
2012-06-19 18:40 ` Thomas Rast
2012-06-19 18:59 ` Jeff King
2012-06-19 19:52 ` Jeff King
2012-06-19 19:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets Jeff King
2012-06-19 20:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 20:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] Makefile: split GIT_USER_AGENT from GIT-CFLAGS Jeff King
2012-06-19 20:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 20:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] Makefile: split prefix flags " Jeff King
2012-06-19 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 21:04 ` Jeff King
2012-06-19 21:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 23:36 ` Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 21:43 ` Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:22 ` [PATCHv2 0/8] makefile cleanups Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:23 ` [PATCHv2 1/8] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets Jeff King
2012-06-20 3:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 4:26 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 10:27 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 16:37 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 18:28 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 18:30 ` [PATCHv3 01/11] Makefile: sort LIB_H list Jeff King
2012-06-20 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-20 20:01 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 18:30 ` [PATCHv3 02/11] Makefile: fold MISC_H into LIB_H Jeff King
2012-06-20 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-20 21:07 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 22:11 ` Jeff King
2012-07-07 3:39 ` [PATCH 02.5/11] Makefile: fold XDIFF_H and VCSSVN_H " Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-09 14:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-06 22:47 ` [PATCHv3 02/11] Makefile: fold MISC_H " Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 18:31 ` [PATCHv3 03/11] Makefile: do not have git.o depend on common-cmds.h Jeff King
2012-06-20 21:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 18:31 ` [PATCHv3 04/11] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets Jeff King
2012-06-20 21:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 22:15 ` Jeff King
2012-07-07 4:19 ` [PATCH/RFC] Makefile: document ground rules for target-specific dependencies Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 18:31 ` [PATCHv3 05/11] Makefile: do not replace @@GIT_USER_AGENT@@ in scripts Jeff King
2012-06-20 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-20 20:09 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 18:31 ` [PATCHv3 06/11] Makefile: split GIT_USER_AGENT from GIT-CFLAGS Jeff King
2012-06-20 21:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 22:16 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 22:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-07 4:42 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 " Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 18:31 ` [PATCHv3 07/11] Makefile: split prefix flags " Jeff King
2012-06-20 21:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 22:22 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 18:32 ` [PATCHv3 08/11] Makefile: do not replace @@GIT_VERSION@@ in shell scripts Jeff King
2012-06-20 18:32 ` [PATCHv3 09/11] Makefile: update scripts when build-time parameters change Jeff King
2012-06-20 18:32 ` [PATCHv3 10/11] Makefile: build instaweb similar to other scripts Jeff King
2012-06-20 18:32 ` [PATCHv3 11/11] Makefile: move GIT-VERSION-FILE dependencies closer to use Jeff King
2012-06-20 21:31 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 19:30 ` [PATCHv2 1/8] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 19:36 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 19:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-20 19:57 ` Jeff King
2012-06-20 21:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-06-21 8:52 ` Automatic dependency tracking in the Git build system (was: Re: [PATCHv2 1/8] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets) Stefano Lattarini
2012-06-20 20:10 ` [PATCHv2 1/8] Makefile: apply dependencies consistently to sparse/asm targets Junio C Hamano
2012-06-20 23:00 ` Thomas Rast
2012-06-21 5:18 ` Jeff King
2012-06-21 5:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-19 23:24 ` [PATCHv2 2/8] Makefile: do not replace @@GIT_USER_AGENT@@ in scripts Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:25 ` [PATCHv2 3/8] Makefile: split GIT_USER_AGENT from GIT-CFLAGS Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:25 ` [PATCHv2 4/8] Makefile: split prefix flags " Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:27 ` [PATCHv2 5/8] Makefile: do not replace @@GIT_VERSION@@ in shell scripts Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:28 ` [PATCHv2 6/8] Makefile: update scripts when build-time parameters change Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:29 ` [PATCHv2 7/8] Makefile: build instaweb similar to other scripts Jeff King
2012-06-19 23:30 ` [PATCHv2 8/8] Makefile: move GIT-VERSION-FILE dependencies closer to use Jeff King
2012-06-02 19:03 ` [PATCH 3/4] http: get default user-agent from git_user_agent Jeff King
2012-06-02 19:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] include agent identifier in capability string Jeff King
2012-05-31 15:20 ` Stephen Bash [this message]
2012-06-01 8:52 ` git version statistics Jeff King
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