6 years of commit visualized

1 · Salvatore Sanfilippo · Nov. 20, 2015, 10:58 a.m.
Today I was curious about plotting all the Redis commits we have on Git, which are 90% of all the Redis commits. There was just an initial period where I used SVN but switched very soon. Full size image here: http://antirez.com/misc/commitsvis.png !~! Each commit is a rectangle. The height is the number of affected lines (a logarithmic scale is used). The gray labels show release tags. There are little surprises since the amount of commit remained pretty much the same over the time, however ...