VOvortex_ape·Dec 31, 2024Submission
Gource: Software Version Control Visualization
173 points · Open discussionacaudwell
Gource
C++2015–2026
acaudwell / Gource
Gource
software version control visualization
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12Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
13.2KGitHub stars
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software version control visualization
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I love these kind of things: - https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource : generate a beautiful and organic videos from git repositorios. -…
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Observed mentions: 2015-12-04 04:07:15 UTC to 2026-03-28 12:42:16 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesI love these kind of things:
- https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource : generate a beautiful and organic videos from git repositorios.
- https://code.google.com/archive/p/codeswarm/ : similar to Gource .
- https://skyline.github.com : it is dead, like as Atom .
In Software galaxiesThis is really cool. And as OP pointed out, I really like the pipeline integration. Like when linting catches function-level complexity, but in a cross functional way. I prefer to think of programs in layers where the top layers can import lower layers, but never the other way (and also very cautious on horizontal imports). Something like this would help track that. Unfortunately, I'd really need to support Go. I find it interesting the the code is written in Go, but doesn't support Go. But I will watch this project.
From the visualization perspective, it reminds me a lot of Gource. Gource is a cool visualization showing contributions to a repo. You see individual contributors buzzing around updating files on per-commit and per-merge.
https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource
In Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graphGource: Software Version Control Visualization
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