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Mining file histories: should we consider branches?
2018
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - ASE 2018
Modern distributed version control systems, such as Git, offer support for branching -the possibility to develop parts of software outside the master trunk. Consideration of the repository structure in Mining Software Repository (MSR) studies requires a thorough approach to mining, but there is no well-documented, widespread methodology regarding the handling of merge commits and branches. Moreover, there is still a lack of knowledge of the extent to which considering branches during MSR
doi:10.1145/3238147.3238169
dblp:conf/kbse/KovalenkoPB18
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