Gource is **a software version control visualization tool**.

Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Developers can be seen working on the tree at the times they contributed to the project.

Gource includes built-in log generation support for Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and SVN. Gource can also parse logs produced by several third party tools for CVS repositories.

## Synopsis

View the log of the repository (Git, SVN, Mercurial and Bazaar) in the current path:

```bash

gource

```

For more options and examples see the Controls wiki page, consult the included README file or man page documentation.

## Downloads and build notes

The site provides downloads such as `gource-0.53.win64-setup.exe`, `gource-0.53.win64.zip` and `gource-0.56.tar.gz`. Recent release notes state: “Increased minimum required version of Boost to 1.69,” and an earlier release note states: “Now requires SDL 2 to build.”

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