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Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories

Subject: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories

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6 messages between Sep 16, 2009 and Sep 16, 2009.

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Sam Vilain· Sep 16, 2009, 06:28 UTC · lore

A little fun candy to be had here:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTMC3g2Xy8c
  (HQ version coming, once processing completes...)

Gource is a visualizer written in C++ which shows you the development of the source code over time graphically. It's pretty neat. Home page at http://code.google.com/p/gource/

Enjoy, Sam

Mike Hommey· Sep 16, 2009, 06:40 UTC · re: Sam Vilain · lore

Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:28:30PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:

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> A little fun candy to be had here:
> 
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTMC3g2Xy8c
>   (HQ version coming, once processing completes...)
> 
> Gource is a visualizer written in C++ which shows you the development of
> the source code over time graphically.  It's pretty neat.  Home page at
> http://code.google.com/p/gource/

Code swarm (http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/) gives nice results, too.

Mike

Felipe Contreras· Sep 16, 2009, 11:06 UTC · re: Mike Hommey · lore

Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:28:30PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
>> A little fun candy to be had here:
>>
>>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTMC3g2Xy8c
>>   (HQ version coming, once processing completes...)
>>
>> Gource is a visualizer written in C++ which shows you the development of
>> the source code over time graphically.  It's pretty neat.  Home page at
>> http://code.google.com/p/gource/
>
> Code swarm (http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/) gives nice
> results, too.

And the ruby version too :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxjLbj8oT1k

-- 
Felipe Contreras

Steven Noonan· Sep 16, 2009, 08:38 UTC · re: Sam Vilain · lore

Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:

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> A little fun candy to be had here:
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTMC3g2Xy8c
>  (HQ version coming, once processing completes...)
>
> Gource is a visualizer written in C++ which shows you the development of
> the source code over time graphically.  It's pretty neat.  Home page at
> http://code.google.com/p/gource/
>
> Enjoy,
> Sam

Dang. Now I'm going to be running it for hours, unable to look away!

Seriously. It's pretty awesome.

- Steven

Reece Dunn· Sep 16, 2009, 11:16 UTC · re: Sam Vilain · lore

Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories

2009/9/16 Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>:

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> A little fun candy to be had here:
>
>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTMC3g2Xy8c
>  (HQ version coming, once processing completes...)
>
> Gource is a visualizer written in C++ which shows you the development of
> the source code over time graphically.  It's pretty neat.  Home page at
> http://code.google.com/p/gource/

This looks nice.

Having a branch activity (as opposed to directory activity) rendering would be nice as well.

I also noticed that this shows the committer's activity. It may be more accurate to use the author (for example, the Wine project only shows activity from one person and with Git, the activity for Junio is similar being its maintainer).

In addition to this, for large projects that span a long time (5 or more years), it would be nice to speed these up (possibly control the rate as a command-line parameter).

Aside from that... very cool.

- Reece

Alex Riesen· Sep 16, 2009, 13:02 UTC · re: Reece Dunn · lore

Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:16, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:

> In addition to this, for large projects that span a long time (5 or
> more years), it would be nice to speed these up (possibly control the
> rate as a command-line parameter).

It has a little of that, try gource -h (I forgot the option name). Not _much_ faster, though.