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The promises and perils of mining git
2009
2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
We are now witnessing the rapid growth of decentralized source code management (DSCM) systems, in which every developer has her own repository. DSCMs facilitate a style of collaboration in which work output can flow sideways (and privately) between collaborators, rather than always up and down (and publicly) via a central repository. Decentralization comes with both the promise of new data and the peril of its misinterpretation. We focus on git, a very popular DSCM used in high-profile
doi:10.1109/msr.2009.5069475
dblp:conf/msr/BirdRBHGD09
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