Generating a visual history of a git repo

If you haven't met it yet the gource programm really rocks: it generates a OpenGL rendered graph of all the commits of a git project.

You can see the video on real time just by calling the command gource in your git repo, or generate a video of it by piping to ffmpeg

This is the command line I used to generate my own video:

gource --hide filenames --hide files --title "the history of pmc" -s 0.1 --highlight-users -1280x720 -o - | ffmpeg -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 1 -threads 0 -bf 0 gource.mp4