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VR-Git: Git Repository Visualization and Immersion in Virtual Reality

Authors:
Roy Oberhauser

Keywords: Git; virtual reality; visualization; version control systems; software configuration management

Abstract:
The increasing demand for software functionality necessitates an increasing amount of program source code that is retained and managed in version control systems, such as Git. As the number, size, and complexity of Git repositories increases, so does the number of collaborating developers, maintainers, and other stakeholders over a repository’s lifetime. In particular, visual limitations of Git tooling hampers repository comprehension, analysis, and collaboration across one or multiple repositories with a larger stakeholder spectrum. This paper contributes VR-Git, a Virtual Reality (VR) solution concept for visualizing and interacting with Git repositories in VR. Our prototype realization shows its feasibility, and our evaluation results based on a case study show its support for repository comprehension, analysis, and collaboration via branch, commit, and multi-repository scenarios.

Pages: 9 to 14

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: October 16, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-997-3

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from October 16, 2022 to October 20, 2022