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Re: Show HN: GitHub Commit Visualiser

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I’m not commenting to denigrate or dismiss your effort, and I’m sure someone else will find value in it. But this jumped out at me: > It shows just how much work an engineering team, or even an individual does, that often goes unseen by non-dev teams. I can sometimes produce a flurry of small and insignificant commits, or spend weeks to produce just one. Frequency or volume of commits probably is a better measure of…

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Re: Show HN: GitHub Commit Visualiser

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This looks interesting, thanks for sharing. I've used gource a few times in the past (it's in the repos for most linux distros) and while I enjoy the occasional visualization, I've yet to find an actual use for it. Has anybody found a real use case? It might be neat and helpful if a tool could show me everywhere that I've been committing too. In gource you can see an avatar for yourself bouncing around as the timelin…

Link to Gource, for the curious: https://gource.io/

Pretty cool when you're added to a new project, have no idea what people have been working on for the past 2 months there and want to see where most of the actual effort was focused.

Re: Show HN: GitHub Commit Visualiser

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This looks interesting, thanks for sharing. I've used gource a few times in the past (it's in the repos for most linux distros) and while I enjoy the occasional visualization, I've yet to find an actual use for it. Has anybody found a real use case? It might be neat and helpful if a tool could show me everywhere that I've been committing too. In gource you can see an avatar for yourself bouncing around as the timelin…

Link to Gource, for the curious: https://gource.io/ Pretty cool when you're added to a new project, have no idea what people have been working on for the past 2 months there and want to see where most of the actual effort was focused.

>Pretty cool when you're added to a new project, have no idea what people have been working on for the past 2 months there and want to see where most of the actual effort was focused.

That's a neat idea!

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