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Gource – Animate your Git history

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Re: Gource – Animate your Git history

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Post by shaunofthedev »

tombert wrote: post #6

I 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?

At an agency I worked for, we'd play back the gource during a project retro. An opportunity to reflect, or see which surprise characters turned up to throw something at the codebase.

I personally enjoyed those sessions, it gave non-coders an opportunity to point and ask questions about various clusters of nodes or find out why we were working on certain things at particular times.

The value was debatable to be sure. Fun though.

Re: Gource – Animate your Git history

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Post by bb88 »

One company I worked for in the past made visualizations of the work being done. They took a repo I was working in, turned it into a gource video and displayed it on the 40 foot screen in the lobby.

And there was my name. Making huge changes causing the tree to fork. It was pretty cool.

Re: Gource – Animate your Git history

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Post by arjonagelhout »

I have used this a couple of times for a codebase I started work on 6 months ago. It’s incredibly rewarding to see branches dying off after a successful refactor.

It also helped me to make more tangible to friends and family the amount of effort required to write software.

Re: Gource – Animate your Git history

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Post by e4e5 »

nico wrote: post #7

Would love to see something like this but that animates social media posts. See a post, then the likes going up, the messages getting pasted…

Or for a single user and how they comment, e.g. on Reddit where the subreddits could be the directories

Re: Gource – Animate your Git history

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Post by ojosilva »

We actually created a Gource-export plugin for our product like 6 years ago.

It would export our data structures and user activity as a git-like log that Gource could ingest. Then we would create videos that would be posted internally at different product dashboards or used for making a cool demo.

We even ended up writing our own JS-based gource, using the C3.js library IIRC. It could ingest more specific activity and history that Gource wouldn't. It didn't have all the shiny visual effects though.

Re: Gource – Animate your Git history

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Post by amarshall »

e4e5 wrote: post #16
nico wrote: post #7

Would love to see something like this but that animates social media posts. See a post, then the likes going up, the messages getting pasted…

Or for a single user and how they comment, e.g. on Reddit where the subreddits could be the directories

Well, see another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35472315

Which links to https://github.com/void4/reddgource

Re: Gource – Animate your Git history

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Post by sendfoods »

slightly embarrassing Gource story...Was part of a group assignment (about 7 people each) and pushed the entire generated Doxygen site without realizing it.

After the assignment, the professor used Gource to visualize the codebase of each group. Needless to say the Gource graph blew up and I was the butt of every git related joke for a while.

Re: Gource – Animate your Git history

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

bb88 wrote: post #12

One company I worked for in the past made visualizations of the work being done. They took a repo I was working in, turned it into a gource video and displayed it on the 40 foot screen in the lobby. And there was my name. Making huge changes causing the tree to fork. It was pretty cool.

Honestly I find that a bit weird. Maybe I'm too introverted but I would be too embarrassed for my work flow to be put on the spot like that.
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