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Every Unix Commit from 1970 to Now() as a Pretty Video

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

rob_on_earth writes:

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: 2) by tibman on Monday November 28 2016, @06:53PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 28 2016, @06:53PM (#434143)

    About your first gripe:

    It has been created by synthesizing with custom software 24 snapshots of systems developed at Bell Labs, the University of California at Berkeley, and the 386BSD team, two legacy repositories, and the modern repository of the open source FreeBSD system. In total, about one thousand individual contributors are identified, the early ones through primary research. The data set can be used for empirical research in software engineering, information systems, and software archaeology.

    About your forking gripe:

    This repository will be often automatically regenerated from scratch, so this is not a place to make contributions. To ensure replicability its users are encouraged to fork it or archive it.

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