Part 1 Warmup Word Cloud

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If you get stuck, remember to ask for help!

  1. Open up a terminal on your machine
  2. cd into a Git repository of your choice
  3. Run git log --pretty='%s' > log.txt
  4. This will create a new file, log.txt, with all commit message history
  5. Open up the txt file in a text editor (start log.txt in Windows, open log.txt on Mac).
  6. Copy the contents of the file to your clipboard
  7. Go to WordArt.com and click the “Create Word Cloud” button
  8. Click the import button, paste your commit history, click “Import words” and click “Visualize”

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Reflection

Which words are largest? Is “Fix” large, or maybe you see a lot of domain words? What does this say about your code base?