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    There's a big difference between an exponential increase (like we see with the facebook graph) and the original graph the question included. If that graph were to be believed, there's a dramatic discontinuity in the slope at a specific point -- that would imply some event that happened, not a network effect. And indeed, it sounds from other answers that this event was the package being renamed! :) Commented Nov 30, 2012 at 17:25
  • This chart might be wrong, but there are other surveys that demonstrate that Git's growth has been exponential. For eg. The Eclipse Survey as discussed in this post (which makes the same point I am making, but in a much better way): jamesmckay.net/2012/06/… Commented Dec 1, 2012 at 6:46
  • The mckay link is broken. Here is the Wayback Machine version. Commented Aug 17, 2013 at 14:56