From a git repository history to video visualization.
Tested on Ubuntu 15.10
sudo apt-get -qyy install ffmpeg libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev \
libpcre3-dev libfreetype6-dev libglew-dev libglm-dev \
libboost-filesystem-dev libpng12-dev libtinyxml-dev
wget "https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource/releases/download/gource-0.43/gource-0.43.tar.gz"
tar xvzf gource-0.43.tar.gz
cd gource-0.43
./configure && make
sudo make install
gource -s 1 -c 2.0 -1280x720 -o gource.ppm
ffmpeg -y -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i gource.ppm \
-vcodec libx264 -preset medium -pix_fmt yuv420p \
-crf 1 -threads 0 -bf 0 gource.mp4