A Repository of Unix History and Evolution.

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

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

2017

DOI

10.1007/s10664-016-9445-5

Link

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

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Primes

• 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.

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