March 24, 2011 01:10 · Mar 24, 2011
diff --git a/gource-multiple-repositories.sh b/gource-multiple-repositories.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Generates gource video (h.264) out of multiple repositories.
+# Pass the repositories in command line arguments.
+# Example:
+# <this.sh> /path/to/repo1 /path/to/repo2
+
+i=0
+for repo in $*; do
+	# 1. Generate a Gource custom log files for each repo. This can be facilitated by the --output-custom-log FILE option of Gource as of 0.29:
+	logfile="$(mktemp /tmp/gource.XXXXXX)"
+	gource --output-custom-log "${logfile}" ${repo}
+	# 2. If you want each repo to appear on a separate branch instead of merged onto each other (which might also look interesting), you can use a 'sed' regular expression to add an extra parent directory to the path of the files in each project:
+	gsed -i -E "s#(.+)\|#\1|/${repo}#" ${logfile}
+	logs[$i]=$logfile
+	let i=$i+1
+done
+
+combined_log="$(mktemp /tmp/gource.XXXXXX)"
+cat ${logs[@]} | sort -n > $combined_log
+rm ${logs[@]}
+
+echo "Committers:"
+cat $combined_log | awk -F\| {'print  $2'} | sort | uniq
+echo "======================"
+
+outfile="gource.mp4"
+time gource $combined_log \
+	-s 0.4 \
+	-i 0 \
+	--highlight-users \
+	--highlight-dirs \
+	--file-extensions \
+	--hide mouse \
+	--key \
+	--stop-at-end \
+	--output-ppm-stream - | ffmpeg -y -b 3000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i - -vcodec libx264 -vpre default $outfile
+rm $combined_log