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posted by n1 on Monday November 28 2016, @04:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the august-29th-1997 dept.

The unix history repo on GitHub has every commit made from the day it was created until now.

Which is great for code historians but what I love is this video(only 59mins long) created with Gource Visualization. It shows how the commits and commiters interact. Starting with Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie and building with odd stops and spurts. Beautiful, it grows with almost organic grace from blobs and tree fronds to a glowing and pulsating amorphous coral like-blob.

It is not hard to imagine code trees with magnitudes more code becoming sentient.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @10:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @10:15AM (#433969)

    UNIX existed long before modern version control

    Impossible! GitHub is how people build software. There is no other way.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @10:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @10:44AM (#433974)

    Yeah, but Unix wasn't built. It just evolved naturally.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 28 2016, @06:42PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 28 2016, @06:42PM (#434138)

      There is no natural evolution!
      There is only Scrum, Sprint, and Release Focus.
      (apologies, my boss is now a born-again Agilist, very enthusiastically doing it wrong)