Source control tools

Overview of source control tools:

System Project page (external) Market share (*)
SVN / Subverison Apache subversion 55%
CVS 12%
GIT Official GIT site 7%
Clearcase IBM Clearcase 3%
VSS / Visual Source-safe Microsoft site 2%
Mercurial Selenic site 2%
TFS / Team foundation server Microsoft site 2%
Bazaar Canonical site 3%
Perforce 1%

One can also filter the different tools based on the OS where they are supported.

Of interest can be the post or this post with the statistics on source control tool usage.

*: Market share is taken from the different references listed above. It is not entirely accurate but gives a trend. You could also count the number of installations, users, servers, repositories, projects, … and have completely different results.

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