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Pretty Git Tree

Your Git history as generative art

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I've spent months building something complex and (so far) invisible. I know that the number of commits, branches, merges etc. aren't proof of progress, but what I needed was a way to represent the amount of effort I'd put in that wasn't "proximity to burnout".Pretty-git-tree takes in your git history (just the commit structure, and it stays local to your browser) and gives you a visually interesting representation of it. For my own projects I use the "qubits" style which winds a quantum circuit around a space-filling curve. I've included snapshots of some famous git repositories as well.I didn't want to just use the standard git tree, because I felt that there were so many different ways of exploring the data - plus I wanted it to look good at the top of a weekly standup report. I've included the four styles I expect people to use, plus another 15 or so styles in the repo where I wanted to try things out (like rendering the branches as tower-blocks in a city, or kintsugi fractures). The repo itself is MIT licensed, and suggestions are welcome.

HN · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views

Niche: codebase visualization tools · 89 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It reads Git history and renders generative art with standard graphics libraries, a common vibe-coding project.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Only works with public repositories

Feature requests: Build tree from a repo link, Clone repo automatically on the server, Integrate with wunderkammer.page

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 318 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #308 of 319 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 364 days after the earliest competitor.

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