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by abhshkdz • 13 years ago

32 20 13 years ago

First off awesome little util.

One Issue: I get an "invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) (SyntaxError)" on a pretty standard OSX install. May want to think about looking for support for char and replacing with something like "-" for the lines. Once I changed that in source.rb everything worked great.

yannickmahe• 13 years ago

Same error in Ubuntu 13.04 for me.

abhshkdz5• 13 years ago

Thanks! Fixed. https://github.com/abhshkdz/graf/pull/2

calebio• 13 years ago

Same error on OSX 10.8, ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22 revision 39386) [x86_64-darwin12.0.0]

abhshkdz5• 13 years ago

It's been fixed and shouldn't be a problem now. Link to the PR: https://github.com/abhshkdz/graf/pull/2

Firstmate• 13 years ago

What did you use to generate the gif?

abhshkdz5• 13 years ago

http://askubuntu.com/a/107735/65847

mtrn2• 13 years ago

I once needed to create a GIF quickly and found http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ a great and cheerful tool.

abhshkdz5• 13 years ago

I used gifsicle to optimize the gif.

jnazario• 13 years ago

neat! inspire to try to replicate this for myself, i implemented it in python and svn. could use a bit of a touchup to get the width right, but mostly works. code as a github gist and a screenshot in imgur.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5995140

http://imgur.com/vehDl2r

fragmede• 13 years ago

Cool demo gif, but what is 'j'? It distracts from seeing what 'graf' outputs.

It looks like some overblown 'cd' command?

omra• 13 years ago

https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

(It's like a smart version of cd.)

abhshkdz5• 13 years ago

Indeed, it is autojump. :)

Watabou• 13 years ago

It's probably autojump, or fasd

Autojump: https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

fasd: https://github.com/clvv/fasd

mtrn2• 13 years ago

It's a smarter `cd`. See also it's successor (AFAIK): https://github.com/rupa/z

untrothy• 13 years ago

Autojump : https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

"autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to."

C0d3r• 13 years ago

One alternative is using https://github.com/lurst/vspark, unfortunately no way to add strings after each bar.

bajsejohannes• 13 years ago

Looks nice, though I don't know why you would want to know who has the most commits on a project. Trying to measure productivity might make you optimize for the wrong things.

Jonovono• 13 years ago

Cool. Another thing I think would be useful and I am thinking of adding it to a site I made (http://gitray.com) is to be able to kind of press play on a github project. So I could view the project at it's initial commit and then step through the project and watch it get built. Is this something others would find useful?

toupeira• 13 years ago

There's already an Open Source project called gource (https://code.google.com/p/gource/) that does this.

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