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Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by ColinWright » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 10:45 AM UTC

Gource – a software version control visualization tool
gource.io

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by Something1234 » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

This is so incredibly entertaining to use. Although you have to have a fair number of active daily contributors for it to actually be interesting to watch.

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by paulirish » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 11:11 PM UTC

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.

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Post by fimdomeio » Thu, Aug 16, 2018, 11:16 PM UTC

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

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by kevinconroy » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 12:36 AM UTC

Homebrew users:

  brew install gource

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by reificator » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 12:44 AM UTC

My first introduction to Gource was a visualization of early Minecraft development:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRjTyRly5WA

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by js2 » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 1:01 AM UTC

Years ago I was a man of many hats at a startup. One of my hats was build and release guy. We had a demo day for investors and I was like “what the heck do I show them?”

A Gource generated movie of the startup’s main repo saved the day. :-)

Edit: oh wait, it was probably codeswarm:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=221601

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Post by Cieplak » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 1:08 AM UTC

Recently rediscovered tig (Text-mode interface for Git) and have been loving it:

https://jonas.github.io/tig/

Re: Gource – a software version control visualization tool

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Post by jlarocco » Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 1:09 AM UTC

TBH, I was a little disappointed. The animations are neat, but I was hoping for something more practical.

I did recently learn about magit's magit-log-all command, and that's been really useful.

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

Gource is incredibly powerful, but it does take a bit of playing around with all of the config options available to get your results just right.

I put together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYJAWWZ2jQ for OctoberCMS, an open source content management framework that's been steadily gaining in popularity for the past four years.