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| Analyzing File-Motif Committed by Developers in Open Source Software Repository |
| FANG Huiting, FU Chenbo, CHEN Fenglei, XUAN Qi
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| College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China |
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Abstract In this paper, we analyze the committed data of developers in Git repository to investigate the distribution of the numbers of files in different commits and the dependency among the files in each commit. We find that the distribution of the number of files in a commit for each project follows approximately a power-law distribution, and files committed by a developer at the same time are likely to dependent on each other. Such analysis of the dependency between the files committed at the same time can help to design better recommender system to predict the next focus of a developer and thus may improve her work efficiency.
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Received: 11 October 2014
Published: 22 June 2026
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