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I've been doing Google searches every now and then to try to assess the relative popularity of Git vs Mercurial. Two years ago it seemed to be 2:1 in favor of
by cgrubb 14y ago
I've been doing Google searches every now and then to try to assess the relative popularity of Git vs Mercurial. Two years ago it seemed to be 2:1 in favor of Git. A year ago it seemed to be 3:1 in favor of Git. Now I think it is about 5:1 in favor of Git. Here are my most recent Google hit counts:
git 208M
git revision 6M
git version 56M
git control 19M
mercurial 29.5M
mercurial revision 1M
mercurial version 7M
mercurial control 6M
Google trends of "git repository" vs "mercurial repository":
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%20repository%2C%20mercurial%20repository&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%20repository%2C%2...
update:
hg revision 5M
hg version 55.5M
hg control 63.M
hg OR mercurial revision 6M
hg OR mercurial version 70.5M
hg OR mercurial control 74M
The decline in popularity of "mercurial" vs "git" seems real, but I agree that "mercurial" searches may be under-reporting the popularity of Mercurial. The top hits for "hg -mercurial revision" have nothing to do with Mercurial, tho.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- ejp 14y agoYou might want to include searches for 'hg revision' etc - mercurial suffers from having its command-line invocation different from its name.
- niggler 14y agounsurprisingly, 'hg ____' shows fewer results than 'mercurial ____' for the words the parent tested
- thedufer 14y agohg - 338M mercurial - 30M hg revision - 5.5M mercurial revision - 1.1M hg version - 60M mercurial version - 7M I'm seeing exactly the opposite. There's an argument to made to the effect that `hg` picks up a lot of things that have nothing to do with source control, but that's still a big difference.
- niggler 14y agoTry searching for git as well: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%20version%2C%20mercurial%20version%2C%20hg%20version&cmpt=q https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%20version%2C%20m...
- thedufer 14y agoThat's search volume. Parent was talking about search hits. I'd believe that search volume is more important, but I stand by my point in the context of this thread.