Visualizing Our Git Repository Activity

Graph swag

We recently launched our product launchaco and received lots of positive feedback! We are very excited for our upcoming release, but in the mean time, wanted to share a cool visualization on our git repo from building launchaco!

Using an open source git visualization tool called gource, we were able to see the life span of our project from the beginnings to launch! The instructions on how to do it yourself on Mac OSX are below, enjoy!

Installation instructions on Mac OSX:

brew install ffmpeg
brew install gource
cd to/root/of/git/project

then run this command to output to awesomevis.mp4

gource — highlight-all-users — camera-mode overview — hide dirnames,filenames — seconds-per-day .001 — auto-skip-seconds 1 -1280x720 -o — | ffmpeg -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i — -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 1 -threads 0 -bf 0 awesomevis.mp4

Visit https://code.google.com/archive/p/gource/wikis/Controls.wiki on why i chose these commands :)