A Repository of Unix History and Evolution.

Spinellis, D. (2017). A Repository of Unix History and Evolution. Empirical Software Engineering, 22(3), 1372-1404.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2017

Volume

22

Issue

3

Pages

1372-1404

DOI

10.1007/s10664-016-9445-5

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-016-9445-5

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• Geometric Chronology
  • In software engineering and code archaeology, git blame, three-way merge, and file-history walks read patch geometry as edit chronology: a line modified by a patch postdates the line, a vendored file postdates its source, and squashed commits overprint earlier per-step history.

    This sourceReconstructs decades of system evolution by reading repository geometry — directory structure (superposition), commits modifying files (cross-cutting), imported/vendored code (inclusion), and rewritten history (overprint) — as edit chronology.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract supports only the frame — a Git-hosted Unix repository used for software archaeology — and never states git blame, vendored-file, or squashed-commit chronology.

    “The data set can be used for empirical research in software engineering, information systems, and software archaeology.”

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