Git visualization with gource

Sun, 06 May 2012 by Frank Lazzarini

Are you using git/svn/mercurial/bazaar as version control system and you ever wanted to visualize your work, how the project developed over time well Gource is there to visualize all this in a beautiful way. It takes the history of your svn/git/mercurial/bazaar repository and visualizes the changes over time, by whom they were done and so forth.

First we need to install gource if you are on Ubuntu/Debian do the following

sudo apt-get install gource

Now run the following with path/to/project being your projects root directory, and give gource the .git subfolder. Run it and you should see the animation being presented.

gource /path/to/project/.git/

Now to export this to an mpeg4 video do the following.

gource /path/to/project/.git/ --stop-at-end --output-ppm-stream - | ffmpeg -y -b 6000k -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec mpeg4 /tmp/gource.mp4

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