18 million links in commit messages: purpose, evolution, and decay

18 million links in commit messages: purpose, evolution, and decay

Commit messages contain diverse and valuable types of knowledge in all aspects of software maintenance and evolution. Links are an example of such knowledge. Previous work on “9.6 million links in source code comments” showed that links are prone to decay, become outdated, and lack bidirectional tra...

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Main Authors: XIAO, Tao, BALTES, Sebastian, HATA, Hideaki, TREUDE, Christoph, KULA, Raula, ISHIO, Takashi, MATSUMOTO, Kenichi
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
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Commit messages
Software documentation
Link sharing
Link decay
Software Engineering
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8781
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9784/viewcontent/18million.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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