Gource: Visualize your Git logs in style

Gource: Visualize your Git logs in style

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While generally there isn’t any real benefit in using this tool, it has been known to be able to increase your swag factor by up to 83% and it is, in the context of version control, the ultimate eye candy, an absolute must-have for catholic priests and Pedobear fanboys.

Gource was developed by Andrew Caudwell as a software version control visualization tool with built-in log generation support for Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and SVN. To find out more about it, you can check out the official page on code.google.com.

Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Developers can be seen working on the tree at the times they contributed to the project.

Gource Screenshot

Windows users can download it from the Downloads section of the project page, install it and run…

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