A state-of-the-art survey on software merging¶
Mens, T. (2002). A state-of-the-art survey on software merging. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 28(5), 449-462.
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- Branching and Merging
- The structural insight is robust: a code repository, a clade of organisms, a family of languages, and a set of design prototypes all exhibit the same divergence-then-reconvergence logic, and in each the merge is where the topology earns its keep — it is the only place the parallel histories are forced to confront one another.
This sourceSurvey of software merge techniques (textual, syntactic, semantic, operation-based): identifies the merge as the load-bearing reconciliation point and documents that a mechanically successful textual/structural merge can still produce a semantically incoherent result, guaranteeing only the absence of detected conflict.
- The structural insight is robust: a code repository, a clade of organisms, a family of languages, and a set of design prototypes all exhibit the same divergence-then-reconvergence logic, and in each the merge is where the topology earns its keep — it is the only place the parallel histories are forced to confront one another.
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