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I once joined a company where a Dev was in the process of rewriting a big codebase.

I didn't think much of it and run Gource on it for fun.

Turns out, he did countless rewrites over the year.

Interesting to watch and explained why the CEO seemed to so concerned about the dev, lol

Same here, gource did help to visualize a complete revamp / refactor of a software, from the current mess by that time, to the final, pratically complete rewrite it was (through a process, since keep it working was mandatory). Really interesting to see the "mess" mutating into a more organized file struct, etc.

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