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

It looks like some overblown 'cd' command?

https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

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

Indeed, it is autojump. :)

It's probably autojump, or fasd

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

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

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

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."

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?

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

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.

Same error in Ubuntu 13.04 for me.

Thanks! Fixed. https://github.com/abhshkdz/graf/pull/2

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

It's been fixed and shouldn't be a problem now. Link to the PR: https://github.com/abhshkdz/graf/pull/2

What did you use to generate the gif?

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

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

I used gifsicle to optimize the gif.

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

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.

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

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