git-visualizer
Dev tools
code visualization
SHOW HN2016
141points
40comments
#247of 2,264 in 2016
Top 11%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
8 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 7 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Design: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fast loading and visually impressive graphs
From 3 comments
I'm impressed with how fast this loads. Nice work!
michaelmior on HNVery nice visualisation! It would be good to gracefully handle large graphs. I typed in "torvalds/linux" and my tab froze!
xtacy on HNThat's incredible. I feel like I'm looking at a cell slide of a living organism.
brbsix on HN
Objections
Constantly moving force-directed layout makes nodes hard to click and is laggy
From 3 comments
Why does it move and wiggle? It makes it unnecessarily hard to click on nodes. Also, it took me at least 30 seconds to figure out how to start at all as I didn't notice the small…
nkrisc on HNI agree, it shouldn't have to be moving immediately. It makes the page much laggier than it has to be.
artursapek on HNI'm looking forward to one day being shown a "visualizer" that actually gives me sane insight into the structure, instead of some wibbly-wobbly animated node graph that I have to…
Wintamute on HN
Freezes or slows the browser on large repos like torvalds/linux
From 2 comments
Very nice visualisation! It would be good to gracefully handle large graphs. I typed in "torvalds/linux" and my tab froze!
xtacy on HNtorvalds/linux is utter chaos, brings chrome to a crawl :P
hyperchase on HN
Labels require hovering; hard to read at a glance
From 1 comment
neato, but would be much more neato if I didn't need to hover for labels [1] - at least at the first few levels also would be cool to color/heatmap them by recent modification…
leeoniya on HN
Form inputs are hard to find and conflict with ad blockers
From 2 comments
Why does it move and wiggle? It makes it unnecessarily hard to click on nodes. Also, it took me at least 30 seconds to figure out how to start at all as I didn't notice the small…
nkrisc on HNTo the author and any other with the same problem: I had to disable ublock origin to view the form at top left
riquito on HN
Requests
Analyze cross-file dependencies such as includes or imports
From 1 comment
Suggestion: add an option to look at file contents and analyze cross-file dependencies (eg c/c++ #includes or java imports)
tlipcon on HN
Show labels by default at top levels
From 2 comments
neato, but would be much more neato if I didn't need to hover for labels [1] - at least at the first few levels also would be cool to color/heatmap them by recent modification…
leeoniya on HNGreat suggestions! Might make it so that root level directories have their label always shown.
veniversum on HN
Search or filter nodes by name
From 1 comment
awesome tool! One feature request: Being able to search/filter by name. I often find some file being included in the build and its a pain to track down exactly who uses it (ok,…
mkoryak on HN
Color nodes by modification date, file size or lines of code
From 1 comment
neato, but would be much more neato if I didn't need to hover for labels [1] - at least at the first few levels also would be cool to color/heatmap them by recent modification…
leeoniya on HN
Clickable example links and error messages for missing repos
From 3 comments
You should make the example text ("Try atom/atom") a link so I don't have to type in the boxes myself :)
swanson on HNThere is no error message when you target a repo that is (now, unexpectedly) 404.
daveloyall on HNSeems not to work for this site I made http://veniversum.me/git-visualizer/?owner=rr1000&repo=placeholder , but works for everything else. I guess node_modules are the issue?
ryanSrich on HN
Questions
Would rooting the tree help readability
From 1 comment
Would rooting the tree help?
adenadel on HN
Alternatives named
Gource
From 3 comments
In the same vein, gource is pretty cool. It shows the same sort of graph, but animated as it changes over time. So you can watch the project develop, and even see who was working…
curiousGambler on HNCompletely agree - Gource is also mentioned here and does something similar. Probably more useful tools are CodeCity and JSCity, that go beyond the layout of the repo and get to…
adrianbd on HNYou might be interested in Gource then, it visualizes a repo in a very similar manner, but animates along the commit timeline. Here's a recording of the linux repo being parsed…
tehbeard on HN
OctoTree
From 1 comment
There is an extension for Chrome I use that does this pretty well, IMO. OctoTree : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/octotree/bkhaagjahfmjljalopjnoealnfndnagc?hl=en-US
schlomok on HN
WinDirStat treemaps
From 1 comment
A treemap is a good static alternative to a literal tree of nodes. There are already programs like WinDirStat that use them to visualize file systems.…
Rangi42 on HN
CodeCity and JSCity
From 1 comment
Completely agree - Gource is also mentioned here and does something similar. Probably more useful tools are CodeCity and JSCity, that go beyond the layout of the repo and get to…
adrianbd on HN
js-code-structure
From 2 comments
This tool might solve your problem, Cause it shows the actual structure https://github.com/timqian/js-code-structure
timqian on HNI have build a similar project showing the code structure. https://github.com/timqian/js-code-structure The idea to make it a website is great, I might build a similar website…
timqian on HN