[aaronsw]

I think it's partly an artifact: due to a naming conflict, the git package in Debian used to be named "git-core" and was renamed "git" around then.

[Groxx]

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&...

[mlinksva]

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git++git-core...

With CVS, darcs, monotone also interesting.

[Groxx]

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.

[Estragon]

I use it pretty often for casual alteration of configuration files.

[mkopinsky]

Why do you prefer it to git or hg for this use case?

[spullara]

This whole article has been rendered silly based on this observation. Yes git's popularity has increased and passed subversion but it was a long time coming and not an explosion at all.