On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Dan Weeks <dan+textmate@danimal.orgdan%2Btextmate@danimal.org
wrote:
On 2009-03-27 17:23, Gerd Knops threw down some bits like this:
On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Thorsten Hamann wrote:
Yes, lots of people here use the subversion bundle. In fact, I'd guess that it's around 80-90% of the people, and near 100% of the professional programmers.
I can only shake my head when people throw out wild guesses like that...
Subversion is quickly being obsoleted by more powerful tools.
Gerd is right. Subversion is not that big. In corporations you're more likely to find something like Perforce or SourceSafe. Just because it's big in the open source realm doesn't mean it's big everywhere.
Not just the corporations are looking at alternatives to svn.
I don't have any numbers but..
From where I sit I'm amazed at the rapid adoption of git in the open source
community. While subversion might still be big, git has a lot of upward velocity.
A lot of this has to do, it seems to me, with the groundbreaking combination of social networking with version control as exemplified by sites like github.com.