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Re:Git is exploding by Groxx on Saturday October 29, 2011 @03:01AM (#3171392)
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&...

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Re:Git is exploding by mlinksva on Saturday October 29, 2011 @03:49AM (#3171458)
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git++git-core...

With CVS, darcs, monotone also interesting.

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Re:Git is exploding by Groxx on Saturday October 29, 2011 @05:15AM (#3171537)
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.
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Re:Git is exploding by Estragon on Saturday October 29, 2011 @08:00AM (#3171694)
I use it pretty often for casual alteration of configuration files.
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Re:Git is exploding by mkopinsky on Saturday October 29, 2011 @09:23PM (#3173346)
Why do you prefer it to git or hg for this use case?
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