A simple way of visualizing Git repository

Some time ago, a new colleague joined our department and started working on a platform we provide. During his initial days, I noticed he was using an interactive Python shell to create treemap visualizations of the project's git history. The visualizations looked something like this. Visualization of Unity Catalog repository using custom code snippet. This immediately sparked my interest. Normally, when starting to learn about a new codebase, I would also look at git history, but I would mainly focus on basic information like the number of commits, contributors, stars and so on. However, these visualizations offered a new interesting perspective on understanding how the repository evolved over time. What does this help with? Creating these visualizations helped the colleague to see where the core issue of the project is being addressed by showing which files are edited most, and contain the largest amount of collaborators. Based on this information its easier to find out which par ... Read full article.