Same file, different changes: The potential of meta-maintenance on GitHub

• Main Authors: HATA, Hideaki, KULA, Raula, ISHIO, Takashi, TREUDE, Christoph
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Computer languages; Statistical analysis; Tools; Maintenance engineering; Software; Software development management; Software engineering; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8863; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9866/viewcontent/meta.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Online collaboration platforms such as GitHub have provided software developers with the ability to easily reuse and share code between repositories. With clone-and-own and forking becoming prevalent, maintaining these shared files is important, especially for keeping the most up-to-date version of...