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Git-Truck 🚚

Git-Truck is a project that aims to ease the understanding of the evolution of any git repository, independent of language by providing an interactive visualization tool.

• License: MIT
• Source code & documentation: github.com/git-truck
• To try it out run: npx -y git-truck
• Contributors: Jonas, Thomas, Emil, Kristoffer, Dawid
• Privacy: runs completely locally; does not upload anything to the cloud; can be used offline

Examples of Usage

Looking at student projects:

• Spotting Badly Structured Systems
• Understanding Code Organization
• Quickly Comparing Complexity of Two Systems

Learning from open source:

• Typescript: Investigating a Compiler
• Flask: Why call it a micro-web-framework?

Papers

1. Git-Truck: Hierarchy-Oriented Visualization of Git Repository Evolution - a paper in which we show
   • how git-truck works
   • results of an async user evaluation that shows which users benefit the most from such a tool and in which way
2. Can Git Visualization Support Educators in Assessing Group Projects? - a paper which
   • argues that educators are a special kind of user for repository visualization, and lists some of their specific needs
   • shows with examples the kinds of information educators can gain by using Git-Truck

Future Work

• comment analysis to support module understanding
• add plugins for language-specific analysis - especially dependency analysis