Elite Frontier

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.

sudo port install gource
sudo port install ffmpeg

Commandline to output to a .mp4 video file
gource --hide filenames --file-idle-time 0 --seconds-per-day 0.25 -1280x720 -o - | ffmpeg -y -b 10000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 -fpre /opt/local/share/ffmpeg/libx264-lossless_slow.ffpreset -threads 0 -bf 0 ~/Desktop/gource.x264.mp4