Gource – a software version control visualization tool • Hacker News Board

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by pretty_colors » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 1:30 AM UTC

~25,000 of the most starred Github repos have Gource vids on YouTube.

Search "YOUR_REPO_URL gource" or "Evolution of YOUR_PROJECT_NAME gource"

Full command found in recent vid descriptions.

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Back in the day when YouTube didn't set reasonable user upload limits...

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by a3n » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 3:53 AM UTC

Cieplak wrote: post #8

Recently rediscovered tig (Text-mode interface for Git) and have been loving it: https://jonas.github.io/tig/

I always install tig immediately after git.

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by amake » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 4:24 AM UTC

paulirish wrote: post #3

The project is a bit undocumented but the configuration offers a lot of possibilities. I'd recommend iterating with various config settings with `--load-config gource.conf` A gource I configured recently of the Chrome DevTools team's activity: https://youtu.be/N48q9aiUMjI Another plus for Mac users: it's an easy install on homebrew.

It's also on MacPorts.

(I discovered this halfway into writing my own portfile.)

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by sedatk » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 5:33 AM UTC

fimdomeio wrote: post #4

While gource is incredible I would love if it was more versatile. It would be incredible if it could be themable.

You can customize it to some extent. See ours for instance: https://youtu.be/iZjvVxbM3kY

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by malkia » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 5:39 AM UTC

a3n wrote: post #12

Cieplak wrote: post #8

Recently rediscovered tig (Text-mode interface for Git) and have been loving it: https://jonas.github.io/tig/

I always install tig immediately after git.

I use it instead of less, tig is even less.

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by manhnt » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 6:10 AM UTC

What's practical application of this?

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by guipsp » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 6:17 AM UTC

manhnt wrote: post #16

What's practical application of this?

It's pretty.

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by another-cuppa » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 9:34 AM UTC

Cieplak wrote: post #8

Recently rediscovered tig (Text-mode interface for Git) and have been loving it: https://jonas.github.io/tig/

That's great but almost entirely unrelated to Gource.

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by iforgotpassword » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 10:03 AM UTC

fimdomeio wrote: post #4

While gource is incredible I would love if it was more versatile. It would be incredible if it could be themable.

On that note, I once saw it being (ab)used to visualize activity on a phpBB. I think they mapped threads to files and posts to commits or something like that. Interesting idea and I was wondering if you could apply it to other things as well.

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by overlordalex » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 10:22 AM UTC

manhnt wrote: post #16

What's practical application of this?

We put the end visualisation on our team shirts. Unfortunately due to printing limitations it didn't end up looking that good, but it's still a neat idea.