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Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool

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Re: Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by paragraft »

j88439h84 wrote: post #22

It's pretty, but I can't think of anything I'd use it as a "tool" for .

Coworker used it to generate a visual history of all the changes a departing colleague had made in his time at the company. Put it up on a wall at his farewell party, was a nostalgia trip for those who remembered many of the older directory names that popped up (and helped drive home how much of a contribution this single dev had made early on).

Re: Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by dwheeler »

tjoff wrote: post #20
dwheeler wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Hmm, why do you recommend adding music? For the human. Videos are way more interesting to most people if there's an audio track of some kind. Anyone who doesn't like the sound can mute it. Less processing really isn't relevant. CPU is cheap. Yes, audio does take some additional space & network, but it's practically nothing compared to the space required for a video. So if you're making a video anyway, add some soun…

Not really picking sides but the one thing I hate with music is that if I for any reason would not like to listen to it. Maybe I'm already listening to music - maybe I don't have my headphones on and don't want to disturb anyone else (or don't have speakers). Or I'm on a laptop/phone where the speakers are just terrible. If I press the mute button I will not know if I'm missing out on some important commentary. There…

I like the idea of having some standardized way of noting that. The indicator would have to be short and clear. Any ideas? Maybe "Music-only audio"?

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Post by leipert »

dwheeler wrote: post #7

Gource is a really cool visualization tool. Here's a Gource visualization of development of the Python programming language (C Python implementation, aka CPython): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBtDstOTmA Here's a collection of Gource visualizations: https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource/wiki/Videos If you create your own visualizations, I strongly recommend that you automate doing it as much as possible. For exampl…

Ha, last year I have created a video which showed 7 years of GitLab Community Edition history in 2.5 minutes and put some music from https://www.bensound.com behind it. It is definitely fun to analyze bigger projects. Maybe I should do the Linux Kernel, but my fear would be rendering that could take quite long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ltmzQLO6k

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Post by pabs3 »

dwheeler wrote: post #7

Gource is a really cool visualization tool. Here's a Gource visualization of development of the Python programming language (C Python implementation, aka CPython): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNBtDstOTmA Here's a collection of Gource visualizations: https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource/wiki/Videos If you create your own visualizations, I strongly recommend that you automate doing it as much as possible. For exampl…

It would be cool if Gource could generate the audio track for you based on the commits in the repository.

Re: Gource.io – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by baroffoos »

wjdp wrote: post #17

Is there a binary available for this? Download on the site seems to just be source. Currently running `./configure` and going through the dance of working out what my package manager calls each of the dependencies one at a time with no idea of progress (has anyone solved this problem?).

Its available on the package managers of most linux distros.
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