I wrote briefly about code_swarm last year – a tool to generate visualisations of a project’s commit history. Today, via Brenda Wallace, I found out about a new variation on the same theme – so new it hasn’t been released or even named yet. Apparently though the author, Andrew Caudwell, is planning to release the source in the very near future.
The following video, also courtesy of Brenda Wallace, shows the output generated from the StatusNet (formerly Laconica) git repository:
I think this is really impressive stuff, and not just because I’m in it. There’s a better quality version on YouTube.
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Almost two years on Tony Hirst is doing some similar kinds of visualisations you might like: http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/06/08/another-blooming-look-at-gource-and-the-edina-openurl-data/
I’ll point others here.
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