Discovered gource the day before yesterday. Want! In the office! In realtime!

sudo apt-get install gource

Gource can read the logs from existing repositories.

But to continuosly feed it with incoming revisions, we’ll attach a post-commit hook to the SVN repository that creates a custom log format, which is then written to a file as the changes come in.

Add to or execute from /hooks/post-commit in your svn server directory:

#!/bin/sh

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"

# COLOR=FFFFFF
AUTHOR=`svnlook author --revision $REV $REPOS`
TIME=`date +%s`
CUSTOMLOGFILE=/home/fusselwurm/svn-gource.log

svnlook changed --revision $REV $REPOS | while read line; do
        STATE_FILES=`echo $line | sed -E 's/\s+/|/' -`
        LOGLINE="$TIME|$AUTHOR|$STATE_FILES" # |$COLOR" 
        echo "$LOGLINE" >> "$CUSTOMLOGFILE"
done;

Right. Now pipe the log file’s contents to gource:

tail -F /home/fusselwurm/svn-gource.log | \
  gource --log-format custom -200x200 -

Yay!