Gource – Animate your Git history
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Gource – Animate your Git history
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#2This is one of the rare impeccably aesthetic programs.
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#3Shows how human activity such as git history is quite simlar to how evolution branches and (git programs forks) and some branches dies off and the one that survives is the current way haha
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#4I used it to visualize comment activity on Reddit: https://youtu.be/8ozKt3O8O4Y
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#5I discovered Gource back in 2013 when Minecraft released an animation of their first 800+ days of dev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRjTyRly5WA
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#6I remember hearing about this ten years ago, and I played with it, and it's cool enough, though for the life of me I have not been able to figure out anything actually useful to do with it. Does anyone use it as part of their actual workflow?
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#7Would love to see something like this but that animates social media posts.
See a post, then the likes going up, the messages getting pasted…
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#8I discovered Gource back in 2013 when Minecraft released an animation of their first 800+ days of dev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRjTyRly5WA
Hah! I also discovered it from the same source and was just about to post the same link. That video made quite an impact on me.
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#9I remember hearing about this ten years ago, and I played with it, and it's cool enough, though for the life of me I have not been able to figure out anything actually useful to do with it. Does anyone use it as part of their actual workflow?
Same, we used it for a bit to demonstrate the quantity of work that underly the feature requests to the business. Sure, you see a new button, but HERE is the rest of the iceberg...
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#10One of the first things I do any time I start a new job or enter a new repository is run Gource – it gives me an initial sense of several things:
* Project structure (how flat vs hierarchical is the file tree?)
* Which files keep being edited (likely to find bugs and/or tech debt there)
* Which areas different people tend to work in (eg, do they hop around a lot between client/server?)
And of course it is just a fun thing to watch, and usually someone will walk by and ask about what I'm looking at, then they'll come watch with me.