Analysis
Project Evolution: your Git history as a film
Where the comparison shows two photographs, Project Evolution plays the movie: the chart walks your history commit by commit, from the first revision to the current state of the branch.
- The timeline is sampled evenly in time, favouring merges and tags, or you pick a range or the exact commits.
- Play, pause, step, change speed, jump anywhere on the timeline.
- Every frame is a full analysis, stamped with its commit and date.
How to read it
Where the comparison shows you two photographs, Project Evolution plays the movie. The chart walks your repository’s own history commit by commit, from the first revision to the current state of the branch, and you watch the shape of the project change.
Every frame is a full analysis, stamped with the commit and the date it belongs to. Nothing is interpolated between commits: what you see at any point on the timeline is what the code actually measured then. Each frame also keeps your current chart mapping, so whatever you set up in the classic analysis carries straight over into the film.
You build the timeline first, then play it: play, pause, step a frame at a time, change the speed, or jump anywhere. It is the analysis for questions no single snapshot answers: when complexity started climbing, which directory grew fastest, whether a refactor actually shrank anything.
Three ways to build the timeline
- Auto: commits sampled evenly in time, favouring merges and tags
- Range: you choose the span of history to walk
- Manual: you pick exactly the commits you want
XR only: Project Evolution runs in the XR scene. Unlike the file, dependency and history analyses, it has no 2D LivePanel counterpart.
What the player gives you
The controls sit on a panel inside the scene, next to the table the film plays on.
- Timeline modes
- Auto, Range and Manual: how the frames get chosen in the first place.
- The frame list
- Every frame in the built timeline, so you can see and jump to any of them.
- Generate movie
- Builds the timeline into a film before you play it.
- Transport
- Play, pause and step, plus seeking anywhere along the timeline.
- Playback speed
- How fast the history runs, adjustable while it plays.
What the numbers mean
These are the extension’s own definitions: the same glossary the in-room guide shows, generated from the real analysis contracts.
- Frame
- One commit, rendered as a full analysis scene.
- Timeline
- Auto picks the commits for you; range and manual are yours.
- Frame data
- The directory metrics, recomputed for each commit in the timeline.
- Playback
- Play, pause and seek, at an adjustable speed.
The film
Every frame is a full analysis, stamped with the commit it belongs to.
The controller
Timeline modes, the frame list, transport buttons and playback speeds.
The in-room guide
The walkthrough and the metric glossary for the evolution.
The other three analyses
The same pedestal serves all four, and the controller switches between them without losing the state of any.
That is one of the four analyses. They all come from the same extension, and the same install.
Install it and run it