Determining the Intrinsic Structure of Public Software Development History
Antoine Pietri, Guillaume Rousseau, Stefano Zacchiroli · 2020
Background. Collaborative software development has produced a wealth of version control system (VCS) data that can now be analyzed in full. Little is known about the intrinsic structure of the entire corpus of publicly available VCS as an interconnected graph. Understanding its structure is needed to determine the best approach to analyze it in full and to avoid methodological pitfalls when doing so.