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Description:
Version Control Visualization Tool

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 0.55@5 | Tracked Since: Dec 22, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: visualization version-control git development animation

Install: brew install gource

About:
Gource is an open-source version control visualization tool that renders software development directories into interactive animations. It visualizes the history of a project's codebase by showing file and directory structures as a tree, with developers represented as moving avatars interacting with the files. This provides a unique and intuitive way to understand project evolution, developer activity, and codebase complexity over time.

Key Features:

Real-time animated visualization of version control history
Supports Git, SVN, Mercurial, and other VCS systems
Customizable layouts, colors, and user avatars
Exports to PNG, SVG, MP4, and WebM formats

Use Cases:

Creating engaging presentations or promotional videos for software projects
Analyzing project structure and developer collaboration patterns
Identifying inactive or overly complex areas of a codebase

Alternatives:

Logstalgia – Visualizes web server logs instead of version control history
CodeFlower – Interactive 2D flower/tree visualization, less focused on motion/avatars

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Dec 22, 2025 8:37am	0.55	5	VERSION_BUMP	eef453cc
Dec 16, 2024 6:40am		2	VERSION_BUMP	a50fd43f
Nov 25, 2024 10:36pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	6eb1d81b
Sep 12, 2024 2:35pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	72f4906b