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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.

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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&...

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

With CVS, darcs, monotone also interesting.

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.

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

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

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.

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