Git Commit History Visualization

by Xichekolas • 17 years ago

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Xichekolas3• 17 years ago

Notice what happens at the 5 minute mark. That is when Rails moved to Github last April.

Celcius• 17 years ago

I'm not familiar with how rails has been developed but I'm guessing the explosion is due to there previously only being a small group of people with commit access, as opposed to a sudden rush of people working on it when it hit github, right?

DannoHung• 17 years ago

I think it's mostly just that individuals were being properly credited for patches that they submitted, rather than them going through one of the commiters and the source control tool logging the committer as the patch author.

allanj37• 17 years ago

Is there an explanation anywhere about what the different aspects of the visualization represent? (colors, for instance)

Xichekolas3• 17 years ago

In the top left corner is a little legend for the colors. The bottom right has the date of the commit. I had to watch in HD and fullscreen to even see them.

It was generated with code_swarm: http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/

Git Commit History Visualization

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