Also keep in mind that some tools do a lot behind the scenes. I
believe Tortoise is fairly liberal with the information it fetches
from the server, which may generate more distinct HTTP requests.
I'm actually surprised that the command line client dominates as much
as it does. That may be a reflection of googlecode's target audience,
though.
On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:02 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Who knows why one client is used more than another, really? Ben's
> reporting
> numbers which are, I'm guessing, based solely on counts of HTTP
> requests.
>
> For example, could it be that SvnKit is what finds the greatest use in
> continuous build tools? If a continuous build tool is routinely
> polling a
> repository for changes, it could rack up more hits than the more
> intentional
> usage of TortoiseSVN.
>
>
> Lieven Govaerts wrote:
>> Interesting! I expected TortoiseSVN being used much more than SvnKit,
>> but that's apparently only in corporate environments.
>> Or is there an extraordinary high amount of Java projects hosted on
>> googlecode?
>>
>> Lieven
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Ben Collins-Sussman
>> <sussman_at_red-bean.com> wrote:
>>> googlecode gets a huge amount of svn traffic. I was looking at log
>>> statistics, specifically at aggregated user-agent: strings. Here's
>>> the relative popularity of different svn clients:
>>>
>>>
>>> cmdline 65%
>>> SvnKit 15%
>>> Tortoise 8%
>>> SharpSvn 1%
>>> other 11% (too many useragent micro-variants to count)
>>>
>>> cmdline breakdown:
>>>
>>> 1.6.x 5%
>>> 1.5.x 50%
>>> 1.4.x 30%
>>> older 15%
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