Show HN: Git bar graphs in the terminal

[fragmede]

Cool demo gif, but what is 'j'? It distracts from seeing what 'graf' outputs.

It looks like some overblown 'cd' command?

[mtrn]

It's a smarter `cd`. See also it's successor (AFAIK): https://github.com/rupa/z

[Watabou]

It's probably autojump, or fasd

Autojump: https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

fasd: https://github.com/clvv/fasd

[untrothy]

Autojump : https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

"autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to."

[omra]

https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

(It's like a smart version of cd.)

[Jonovono]

Cool. Another thing I think would be useful and I am thinking of adding it to a site I made (http://gitray.com) is to be able to kind of press play on a github project. So I could view the project at it's initial commit and then step through the project and watch it get built. Is this something others would find useful?

[toupeira]

There's already an Open Source project called gource (https://code.google.com/p/gource/) that does this.

[dschwartz88]

First off awesome little util.

One Issue: I get an "invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) (SyntaxError)" on a pretty standard OSX install. May want to think about looking for support for char and replacing with something like "-" for the lines. Once I changed that in source.rb everything worked great.

[calebio]

Same error on OSX 10.8, ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22 revision 39386) [x86_64-darwin12.0.0]

[yannickmahe]

Same error in Ubuntu 13.04 for me.

[Firstmate]

What did you use to generate the gif?

[abhshkdz]

http://askubuntu.com/a/107735/65847

[mtrn]

I once needed to create a GIF quickly and found http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/ a great and cheerful tool.

[C0d3r]

One alternative is using https://github.com/lurst/vspark, unfortunately no way to add strings after each bar.

[bajsejohannes]

Looks nice, though I don't know why you would want to know who has the most commits on a project. Trying to measure productivity might make you optimize for the wrong things.

[jnazario]

neat! inspire to try to replicate this for myself, i implemented it in python and svn. could use a bit of a touchup to get the width right, but mostly works. code as a github gist and a screenshot in imgur.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5995140

http://imgur.com/vehDl2r