# Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories

6 messages from 2009-09-16 to 2009-09-16. Participants: Sam Vilain, Mike Hommey, Steven Noonan, Felipe Contreras, Reece Dunn, Alex Riesen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20961

## Sam Vilain, 2009-09-16 06:28

Subject: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories
Message-ID: <4AB0858E.6040805@vilain.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4AB0858E.6040805%40vilain.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/

Enjoy,
Sam

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## Mike Hommey, 2009-09-16 06:40

Subject: Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories
Message-ID: <20090916064028.GA9482@glandium.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090916064028.GA9482%40glandium.org
In-Reply-To: <4AB0858E.6040805@vilain.net>

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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.

Mike

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## Steven Noonan, 2009-09-16 08:38

Subject: Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories
Message-ID: <f488382f0909160138x17690ebcr106eb0faa4ffc0ff@mail.gmail.com>
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In-Reply-To: <4AB0858E.6040805@vilain.net>

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

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

Seriously. It's pretty awesome.

- Steven

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## Felipe Contreras, 2009-09-16 11:06

Subject: Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories
Message-ID: <94a0d4530909160406x39da12d5x12a1873daed4d2b@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/94a0d4530909160406x39da12d5x12a1873daed4d2b%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20090916064028.GA9482@glandium.org>

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

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## Reece Dunn, 2009-09-16 11:16

Subject: Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories
Message-ID: <3f4fd2640909160416n7c0ac92eo3f055d6c45f9c0a2@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/3f4fd2640909160416n7c0ac92eo3f055d6c45f9c0a2%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <4AB0858E.6040805@vilain.net>

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

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## Alex Riesen, 2009-09-16 13:02

Subject: Re: Gource - new GL Visualisation for git repositories
Message-ID: <81b0412b0909160602i582aaf3dif15b7ad75a9880cf@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/81b0412b0909160602i582aaf3dif15b7ad75a9880cf%40mail.gmail.com
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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.

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