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Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by igneous4 on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @09:51AM (#2301014)
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.

Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by gecko on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @09:59AM (#2301062)
That's because it was conspicuously missing as an answer from our respondents.
Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by alkaramba on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:13AM (#2301120)
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.
Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by riffraff on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:22AM (#2301158)
given that 'others' does not seem to be 0.5% of the chart: what else is in there?
Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by stonemetal on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @12:50PM (#2301810)
clear case, and source gear are the only two I can think of that might make the list.
Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by glenjamin on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @01:24PM (#2301967)
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.

Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by durin42 on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:08AM (#2301107)
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.

Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by pnathan on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @12:27PM (#2301728)
There's also ClearCase, which I believe is popular in Big Iron Enterprise shops.
Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by rm445 on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:04AM (#2301091)
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.

Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic by laskito on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:01AM (#2301073)
Don't forget Fossil