Is the an IDE/plugin/smth which can highlight (heat map) code according to how old it is?

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I'm looking for PHP IDE, but I can't find ANY IDE which does something like that. All the code is traceable back in time in git or any other version control, right? So, it would be cool to have a "dust view" mode, to see which code is there for ages (cold, grey), which was changed recently (hot, bright). Like a heat maps for web pages - but for code? I think it might be usable for

P.S. Might be not an IDE feature, but a github functionality for example?

Eclipse can do "Team -> Show Annotations" which show this in the leftmost column. — Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen, Nov 19 '12 at 15:17
@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen is there a way to see how it looks like? Can you point me to a screenshot or shomething like that? — Aleksey Kolupaev, Nov 19 '12 at 15:19
@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen found. Ok, better then nothing, but it shown WHO modified the code, not WHEN it was modified. Well, it's written there, but the idea is to see with one sight where is the fresh code here. — Aleksey Kolupaev, Nov 19 '12 at 15:21
write a small PHP-script that massages the output of "git blame -p _file_" into what you want. — Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen, Nov 19 '12 at 15:25
@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen Sorry ) Thanks for your input and attention )) — Aleksey Kolupaev, Nov 19 '12 at 15:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '12 at 16:55

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Not IDE per se, just TortoiseHG (Mercurial), in which "Annotate files" in THG-menu have this feature

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(fresh lines showing hotter and redder, most left column show exact freshness in revision number)

answered Nov 19 '12 at 16:55

Lazy Badger

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '12 at 02:09

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As others mentioned, the 'blame' or 'annotate' command of most version control programs has the information that you need (the date and revision that each line was changed). SmartSVN allows you to color by age (sorry, it doesn't have a screenshot), and git-age also does that for git repos.

answered Nov 20 '12 at 02:09

Tom Panning

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Is the an IDE/plugin/smth which can highlight (heat map) code according to how old it is?

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