Visualizing Commit History

Ilya Grigorik has posted an article on visualizing with code_swarm. He looks at Ruby on Rails and our own Scott Chacon. A video of Rails’ commit history is available in…

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Ilya Grigorik has posted an article on visualizing with code_swarm. He looks at Ruby on Rails and our own Scott Chacon.

A video of Rails’ commit history is available in HD on Vimeo.


![](http://img.skitch.com/20090128-kye3yx1ay61cbf1d6e3j2pfcea.png)

At around the 5:05 mark, the number of contributors increases because Git (unlike Subversion) properly attributes the author of a patch. Very cool to see.

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