[cgrubb]

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%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.

[ejp]

You might want to include searches for 'hg revision' etc - mercurial suffers from having its command-line invocation different from its name.

[niggler]

unsurprisingly, 'hg ____' shows fewer results than 'mercurial ____' for the words the parent tested

[thedufer]

    hg - 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]

Try searching for git as well:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%20version%2C%20m...

[thedufer]

That'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.