GitSurvey2009_questions.yml

---
- survey_title
- "Git User's Survey 2009"
- survey_stats
- |
  Total respondents:  3868
  Survey created:     Jun 25, 2009 03:15 PM (for testing)
  Opened on:          Jul 15, 2009 02:34 AM
  Announced on:       2009-07-15 02:39:43 (git wiki: GitSurvey2009)
                      2009-07-15 02:54:00 (git wiki: MainPage)
                      Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:22:32 +0200 (git@vger.kernel.org)
  First response:     Jul 15, 2009
  Last response:      Sep 16, 2009
  Closed on:          Sep 16, 2009 11:45 PM (GitSurvey2009 channel, auto)
  Open during:        72 days
  Average time:       49 minutes
- S1
- section_title: About you
- Q1
- colname: Country
  title: 01. What country do you live in?
  type: country
- Q2
- colname: Age
  histogram:
    ' < 18': 0
    18-21: 0
    22-25: 0
    26-30: 0
    31-40: 0
    41-50: 0
    51-75: 0
    '76+  ': 0
  title: 02. How old are you (in years)?
  type: age
- S2
- section_title: Getting started with Git
- Q3
- codes:
    - Very easy
    - Easy
    - Reasonably easy
    - Hard
    - Very hard
  title: 03. Have you found Git easy to learn?
- Q4
- codes:
    - Very easy
    - Easy
    - Reasonably easy
    - Hard
    - Very hard
  title: 04. Have you found Git easy to use?
- Q5
- codes:
    - pre 1.3
    - 1.3.x
    - 1.4.x
    - 1.5.x
    - 1.6.x
    - minor (maintenance) release 1.x.y.z
    - "'master' branch of official git repository"
    - "'next' branch of official git repository"
    - 'other, please specify'
  colname: Version used
  description: |
    You can find git version by using "git --version" or "git version".
    
    "Minor release" is additional specification, so if you for example use
    git version 1.6.3.3, please check both "1.6.x" and "minor release".
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: 05. Which Git version(s) are you using?
- Q6
- codes:
    - 1. novice
    - '2. casual, needs advice'
    - 3. everyday use
    - 4. can offer advice
    - 5. know it very well
  description: You can think of it as 1-5 numerical grade of your proficiency in Git.
  title: '06. Rate your own proficiency with Git:'
- S3
- section_title: How you use Git
- Q7
- codes:
    - work projects
    - unpaid projects
    - proprietary projects
    - OSS development
    - private (unpublished) code
    - code (programming)
    - personal data
    - documents
    - static website
    - web app
    - sharing data or sync
    - backup
    - 'backend for wiki, blog, or other web app'
    - managing configuration files
    - frontend to other SCM (e.g. git-svn)
    - other (please specify)
  description: |
    Note that above choices are neither orthogonal nor exclusive.
    You might want to check multiple answers even for a single repository.
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: '07. I use Git for (check all that apply):'
- Q8
- codes:
    - binary package
    - source package or script
    - source tarball
    - pull from (main) repository
    - preinstalled / sysadmin job
    - 'other - please specify'
  description: |
    Explanation: binary package covers pre-compiled binary (e.g. from rpm
    or deb binary packages); source package covers things like deb-src and
    SRPMS/*.src.rpm; source script is meant to cover installation in
    source-based distributions, like 'emerge' in Gentoo.
    
    Automatic update (apt, yum, etc.) in most cases means binary package
    install; unless one uses source-based distribution like Gentoo, CRUX,
    or SourceMage, where automatic update means using source package (or
    source script).
    
    The option named "preinstalled / sysadmin job" means that either you
    didn't need to install git because it was preinstalled (and you didn't
    upgrade); or that you have to ask system administrator to have git
    installed or upgraded.
    
    Note that this question is multiple choices question because one can
    install Git in different ways on different machines or on different
    operating systems.
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: 08. How do/did you obtain Git (install and/or upgrade)?
- Q9
- codes:
    - Linux
    - 'FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc.'
    - MacOS X (Darwin)
    - MS Windows/Cygwin
    - MS Windows/msysGit (MINGW)
    - OpenSolaris
    - other Unix
    - 'Other, please specify'
  colname: Operating System
  description: |
    On Unix-based operating system you can get the name of operation
    system by running 'uname'.
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: 09. On which operating system(s) do you use Git?
- Q10
- codes:
    - simple text editor
    - programmers editor
    - IDE or RAD
    - WYSIWYG tool
    - other kind
  description: |
    * "simple text editor" option includes editors such as pico, nano,
      joe, Notepad,
    
    * "programmets editor" option includes editors such as Emacs/XEmacs,
      Vim, TextMate, SciTE (syntax highlighting, autoindentation,
      integration with other programmers tools, etc.)
    
    * "IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and RAD (Rapid Application
      Development)" option includes tools such as Eclipse, NetBeans IDE,
      IntelliJ IDE, MS Visual Studio, KDevelop, Anjuta, Xcode,
      Code::Blocks but also tools such as Quanta+, BlueFish or Screem (for
      editing HTML, CSS, PHP etc.), and Kile or LEd for LaTeX.
    
    * "WYSIWYG tools" option includes word processors such as MS Office or
      OpenOffice.org, but also tools such as Adobe Acrobat (for PDF) or
      GIMP (for images), or WYSIWYG DTP tools such as QuarkXPress,
      PageMaker or Scribus, or WYSIWYG HTML editors such as FrontPage,
      Dreamweaver or KompoZer.
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: |-
    10. What do you use to edit contents under version control with Git?
        What kind of editor, IDE or RAD you use working with Git?
- Q11
- codes:
    - git (core) commandline
    - JGit (Java implementation)
    - library / language binding (e.g. Grit or Dulwich)
    - Cogito (DEPRECATED)
    - Easy Git
    - Pyrite
    - StGIT
    - Guilt
    - TopGit
    - pg aka Patchy Git (DEPRECATED)
    - gitk
    - git gui
    - QGit
    - GitView
    - Giggle
    - GitNub
    - GitX
    - git-cola
    - tig
    - TortoiseGit
    - Git Extensions
    - git-cheetah
    - git-instaweb
    - git-sh
    - Gitosis (as admin)
    - repo (to manage multiple repositories)
    - editor/IDE VC integration
    - filemanager integration / shell extension (any)
    - graphical history viewer/browser (any)
    - graphical commit tool (any)
    - graphical diff tool
    - graphical merge tool
    - graphical blame or pickaxe tool
    - 'my own scripts (for daily commandline use, porcelain)'
    - my own scripts (for special tasks)
    - Other (please specify)
  description: |
    Here graphics diff tool means tools such as Kompare, and graphical
    merge tool means tools such as Meld and KDiff3. Those answers include
    graphical merge and diff tools used by programmers editors and IDEs.
    
    "graphical history browser (any)" covers tools such as gitk, QGit,
    Giggle, tig etc., but also built-in git commands such as "git log
    --graph" and "git show-branch". If you use one of mentioned tools _as_
    history browser, mark both a tool and "graphical history browser
    (any)"; if you use some graphical history viewer not listed here,
    please both mark this answer and specify it in the "other tool"
    answer.
    
    Similarly for other answers marked "(any)".
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: '11. What Git interfaces, implementations, frontends and tools do you use?'
- Q12
- freeform: 1
  title: |-
    12. What tool (or kind of tool) would you like to have Git support in?
        (e.g. IDE, RAD, editors, continuous integration, software hosting, bugtracker, merge tool...)
        (this includes language bindings and Git (re)implementations)
- Q13
- codes:
    - repo.or.cz
    - GitHub
    - Gitorious
    - Savannah
    - SourceForge
    - Assembla
    - Unfuddle
    - kernel.org
    - freedesktop.org
    - Alioth
    - Fedora Hosted
    - git hosting site for set of related projects (e.g. OLPC)
    - generic site without git support
    - self hosted
    - Other (please specify)
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: |-
    13. Which git hosting site(s) do you use for your project(s)?
        (Please check only hosting sites where you publish/push to)
- Q14
- codes:
    - git protocol
    - ssh
    - http
    - rsync (DEPRECATED)
    - filesystem
    - via git-bundle
    - foreign SCM (e.g. git-svn)
    - 'Other, please specify'
  description: |
    This question asks about how do you get changes (updates) from
    projects you follow into your local repository. It is not about how do
    you get latest version of Git.
    
    Fetching (or rather cloning) via bundle could mean that project
    publishes ready for download bundles to reduce traffic and load on
    server (HTTP download [of bundle] can be resumed, git-clone currently
    cannot; one can also distribute bundle using P2P).
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: 14. How do you fetch/get changes from upstream repositories?
- Q15
- codes:
    - push
    - pull request (+ any form of announcement / notification)
    - format-patch + email
    - 'format-patch + other (e.g. reviewboard, issue tracker or forum)'
    - git bundle
    - git-svn (to Subversion repository)
    - git-p4 (to Perforce repository)
    - foreign SCM interface (other than mentioned above)
    - 'other - please specify'
  description: |
    Publishing via bundle could mean sending bundle via email, or posting
    it on review board (or forum).
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: 15. How do you publish/propagate your changes?
- Q16
- codes:
    - git add -i / -p
    - git add -u / -A
    - git am
    - git am -i
    - git apply
    - git apply --whitespace=fix
    - git archive
    - git bisect
    - 'git bisect run <cmd>'
    - git annotate
    - git gui blame
    - git blame
    - 'git blame -L <start>,<end> etc.'
    - git bundle
    - git cherry
    - git cherry-pick
    - git cherry-pick -n / --no-commit
    - git citool
    - git clean
    - git add + git commit
    - git commit -a
    - git commit <file>...
    - git commit -i <file>...
    - git commit --amend
    - git cvsexportcommit
    - git cvsserver
    - git daemon
    - git daemon (pushing enabled)
    - git difftool
    - git ... --dirstat
    - 'git fetch [<options>]'
    - git filter-branch
    - git format-patch
    - git grep
    - git imap-send
    - git instaweb
    - git log --grep/--author/...
    - git log -S<string> (pickaxe search)
    - git log --graph
    - git merge
    - git merge with strategy
    - git merge --squash
    - git mergetool
    - git pull (no remote)
    - 'git pull --rebase [<options>]'
    - 'git pull <remote>'
    - 'git pull <URL> <ref>'
    - git push
  columns:
    - never
    - rarely
    - sometimes
    - often
  description: This question (and its continuation below) is entirely optional.
  title: 16. How often do you use the following forms of git commands or extra git tools?
- Q17
- codes:
    - git relink
    - git rebase
    - git rebase -i
    - git reflog or git log -g
    - git remote
    - git remote update
    - git request-pull
    - git revert
    - git send-email
    - git show-branch
    - git shortlog
    - git shortlog -s
    - git stash
    - git stash --keep-index
    - git submodule
    - git subtree
    - git svn
    - git whatchanged
    - git gui
    - gitk
  columns:
    - never
    - rarely
    - sometimes
    - often
  description: |
    Explanation: "Rarely" means that you use mentioned form of command
    either rarely, or you have used it only a few times.
    
    Questions 16 and 17 (its continuation) are purely optional (as are the
    rest of questions in survey). If you don't feel like filling this
    questions, please skip them.
    
    Note: git-subtree is managed out of tree, as a separate project (not
    in git.git repository, not even in contrib/ area). Originally
    git-subtree was submitted for inclusion, and later was considered for
    'contrib/', but it was decided that it would be better if it mature
    out-of-tree, before resubmitting.
  title: '17. How often do you use the following forms of git commands or extra git tools? (continued)'
- Q18
- codes:
    - git bundle (off-line transport)
    - eol conversion (crlf)
    - gitattributes
    - 'mergetool and/or difftool, or custom diff/merge driver'
    - submodules (subprojects)
    - subtree merge (optionally git-subtree)
    - separate worktree / core.worktree
    - multiple worktrees (git-new-worktree)
    - alternates mechanism (sharing object database)
    - stash (optionally "git stash --keep-index")
    - shallow clone (e.g. "git clone --depth=<n>")
    - detaching HEAD (e.g. "git checkout HEAD^0")
    - interactive rebase (small scale history editing)
    - interactive commit / per-hunk comitting / partial commit
    - commit message templates
    - git-filter-branch or equivalent (large history rewriting)
    - bisect (optionally "git bisect run <script>")
    - committing with dirty tree (keeping some changes uncommitted)
    - non-default hooks (from contrib/hooks/ or other)
    - shell completion of commands
    - git-aware shell prompt
    - 'git aliases, shell aliases for git, or own git scripts'
    - 'Other, please specify'
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: 18. Which of the following features have you used?
- Q19
- description: |
    EXAMPLES: partial / subtree checkout, commit annotations aka
    git-notes, refs/replace/* mechanism, "smart" HTTP protocol (git via
    HTTP), resumable clone/fetch, lazy clone (on demand downloading of
    objects), wholesame directory rename detection, syntax highlighting
    and/or side-by-side diffs in gitweb, graphical merge tool integrated
    with git-gui, etc.
  freeform: 1
  title: |-
    19. What features would you like implemented in Git?
        What features are you missing?
- S4
- section_title: What you think of Git
- Q20
- codes:
    - unhappy
    - not so happy
    - happy
    - very happy
    - completely ecstatic
  title: '20. Overall, how happy are you with Git?'
- Q21
- codes:
    - user-interface
    - documentation
    - performance
    - more features
    - tools (e.g. GUI)
    - localization (translation)
  columns:
    - "don't need"
    - a little
    - some
    - much
  title: |-
    21. In your opinion, which areas in Git need improvement?
        Please state your preference.
- S5
- section_title: 'Changes in Git (since year ago, or since you started using it)'
- Q22
- codes:
    - in 2006
    - in 2007
    - in 2008
  multi: 1
  title: "22. Did you participate in previous Git User's Surveys?"
- Q23
- codes:
    - better
    - no changes
    - worse
    - cannot say
  description: |
    The version from approximately one year ago is 1.5.6 from 18-06-2008,
    the last version in 1.5.x series (except maintenance releases from
    1.5.6.1 to 1.5.6.6). Major controversial change in 1.6.0 was
    installing most of the programs outside your $PATH.
    
    Other changes include:
    * stash never expires by default
    * git-branch got -v, --contains and --merged options
    * fast-export / fast-import learned to export and import marks file
    * "git stash save" learned --keep-index option; "git stash" learned "branch" subcommand
    * when you mistype a command name, git can suggest what you might meant to say
    * git add -N / --intent-to-add
    * built in synonym "git stage" for "git add", and --staged for --cached
    * improvements to "git bisect skip" (can take range, more aggresive)
    * "git diff" can use varying mnemonic prefixes, learned "textconv" filter
    * "git log" learned --simplify-merges, --source, --simplify-by-decoration
    * "git send-email" can automatically run "git format-patch"
    * unconfigured git-push issue now a big warning (preparing for the future incompatibile change)
    * you can use @{-1} to refer to the last branch you were on
    * "git diff" learned --inter-hunk-context and can be told to run --patience diff
    * git-difftool can run graphical diff tool
    
    (see individual RelNotes for more details)
  title: 23. How do you compare the current version with the version from one year ago?
- S6
- section_title: Documentation. Getting help.
- Q24
- codes:
    - Git Wiki
    - on-line help
    - help distributed with git
  columns:
    - never used
    - not useful
    - somewhat
    - useful
  description: |
    * Git Wiki can be found at http://git.or.cz/gitwiki
    * on-line help includes, among others, Git Homepage (http://git-scm.com) and "Git Community Book" (http://book.git-scm.com)
    * help distributed with git include manpages, manual, tutorials, HOWTO, release notes, technical documentation, contrib/examples/
  title: 24. How useful have you found the following forms of Git documentation?
- Q25
- codes:
    - Yes
    - No
  title: 25. Have you tried to get help regarding Git from other people?
- Q26
- codes:
    - Yes
    - No
    - Somewhat
  title: '26. If yes, did you get these problems resolved quickly and to your liking?'
- Q27
- codes:
    - git mailing list (git@vger.kernel.org)
    - '"Git for Human Beings" Google Group'
    - IRC (#git)
    - 'IRC (other git/SCM related, e.g. #github)'
    - request in blog post or on wiki
    - asking git guru/colleague
    - 'project mailing list, or IRC, or forum'
    - Twitter or other microblogging platform
    - instant messaging (IM) like XMPP/Jabber
    - StackOverflow
    - other (please specify)
  colname: Channel
  multi: 1
  other: 1
  title: 27. What channel(s) did you use to request help?
- Q28
- codes:
    - git@vger.kernel.org (main)
    - Git for Human Beings (Google Group)
    - msysGit
    - '#git IRC channel'
    - '#github or #gitorious IRC channel'
    - '#revctrl IRC channel'
  colname: Channel
  multi: 1
  title: |-
    28. Which communication channel(s) do you use?
        Do you read the mailing list, or watch IRC channel?
- S7
- section_title: About this survey. Open forum.
- Q29
- codes:
    - git mailing list
    - 'git-related mailing list (msysGit, Git for Human Beings, ...)'
    - mailing list or forum of some project
    - '#git IRC channel topic'
    - announcement on IRC channel
    - git homepage
    - git wiki
    - git hosting site
    - software-related web site
    - 'news web site or social news site (e.g. Digg, Reddit)'
    - blog (or blog planet)
    - other kind of web site
    - Twitter or other microblogging platform
    - 'other - please specify'
  other: 1
  title: "29. How did you hear about this Git User's Survey?"
  type: survey_announcement
- Q30
- freeform: 1
  title: 30. What other comments or suggestions do you have that are not covered by the questions above?
- nquestions
- 30