Re: About the "git merge" tee-shirt
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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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- Apr 14, 2015, 16:27 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:50:55PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> My second guess is that they represent directories. >> But even then, I can't find which of the tee-shirt's circles represents >> which directory, and the count doesn't match. >> >> Does anybody have a better explanation? Or is it just a random drawing >> to say "Git is bigger than it used to be"? > > I believe it is "gource"[1] output from 2005 and 2015, tweaked by a > graphic designer to make it look nicer.
That would match my second guess. I guess the tweaks are what make it hard to do the actual correspondance (there are 53 circles on the drawing if I counted correctly, and 156 directory in today's Git for example). The biggest dirs in number of files today are:
./builtin 99 ./t/t5515 128 ./t/t4013 144 ./Documentation 221 ./Documentation/RelNotes 242 . 378 ./t 774
The directories at 4e7a2eccc21c902918 (Thu Dec 29 01:31:26 2005 -0800) were:
./Documentation/technical 2 ./mozilla-sha1 2 ./arm 3 ./ppc 3 ./compat 4 ./Documentation/howto 8 ./templates 12 ./debian 14 ./t/t4100 14 ./t 62 ./Documentation 126 . 191
So, t/ would be a nice candidate for the big circle on the left hand side (small in 2005, but biggest as of now), and ./ would be the one on its right (used to be biggest, but no longer). Documentation/ is the one at the top (with subdirs howto/ and technical/ in 2005, and the new RelNotes/ today). I'm not sure where builtin/ is, it was probably tweaked too much (it's supposed to be rather big in 2015 and inexistant in 2005, without subdirs).
-- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/