Re:Gource – Animate your Git history
by tombert on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:34PM
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I remember hearing about this ten years ago, and I played with it, and it's cool enough, though for the life of me I have not been able to figure out anything actually useful to do with it. Does anyone use it as part of their actual workflow?
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Same, we used it for a bit to demonstrate the quantity of work that underly the feature requests to the business. Sure, you see a new button, but HERE is the rest of the iceberg...
Re:Gource – Animate your Git history
by shaunofthedev on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:17PM
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At an agency I worked for, we'd play back the gource during a project retro. An opportunity to reflect, or see which surprise characters turned up to throw something at the codebase.
I personally enjoyed those sessions, it gave non-coders an opportunity to point and ask questions about various clusters of nodes or find out why we were working on certain things at particular times.
The value was debatable to be sure. Fun though.
Re:Gource – Animate your Git history
by jackcviers3 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:56PM
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It is a direct visualization of churn. You can really tell when some area of the codebase changes every single day. Probably means that you need to break whatever is attracting all the attention apart.