Gource vs TortoiseSVN: What are the differences?

What is Gource? A software version control visualization tool. It is an OpenGL-based 3D visualisation tool for source control repositories. The repository is displayed as a tree where the root of the repository is the centre, directories are branches and files are leaves. Contributors to the source code appear and disappear as they contribute to specific files and directories.

What is TortoiseSVN? A Subversion client, implemented as a Microsoft Windows shell extension. It is an Apache™ Subversion (SVN)® client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It's intuitive and easy to use, since it doesn't require the Subversion command line client to run. And it is free to use, even in a commercial environment.

Gource and TortoiseSVN belong to "Visual Version Control" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Gource are:

• Built-in log generation support for Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and SVN
• Parse logs produced by several third party tools for CVS repositories
• Display is rendered using OpenGL

On the other hand, TortoiseSVN provides the following key features:

• Easy to use. all commands are available directly from the Windows Explorer
• Powerful commit dialog. integrated spell checker for log messages
• Per project settings

Gource is an open source tool with 7.29K GitHub stars and 585 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gource's open source repository on GitHub.