Mercurial popularity is stagnant

[cowwoc]

Yet another stake in Mercurial's heart: 
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2013/12/19/dvcs-and-git-2013/

Mercurial support is now the #1 most voted feature request in Atlassian 
Stash but they have repeatedly stated they do not plan to add support in 
the foreseeable future: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/STASH-2469

Some are hinting that these trends are deterring them from adding 
support. According to the first link, Mercurial saw 1.41% increased 
adoption across 3 years, while Git saw a 27.09% increase. That's a huge 
difference. I'll repeat my question: what can we do to turn this around? 
I'm not sure I buy the argument that blogging about Mercurial will close 
the gap.

Gili

On 01/07/2014 1:36 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2014, at 1:35 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to bring your attention to:
>> http://www.google.ca/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=mercurial,+git,+github,+bitbucket&cmpt=q&content=1
>>
>> It seems to me that GitHub is directly responsible for Git's popularity
>> skyrocketing in 2009. By comparison, Mercurial's popularity seems to be
>> stagnant for a while. Bitbucket initially did a decent job, but ever since
>> they got bought out by Atlassian all public announcements emphasize Git
>> support and don't mention Mercurial at all.
>>
>> Case in point:
>> http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/12/10/feature-branches-just-got-better/
>>
>> How do we go about reversing this trend?
> I think one thing that would help would be users blogging more about their workflows and how hg makes them productive. I keep meaning to do this, but I have too many things pulling at my attention to ever manage to get started.
>
>> Gili
>>
>>
>>
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