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Commit messages are valuable resources for describing why code changes are committed to repositories in version control systems (e.g., Git). They effectively help developers understand code changes and better perform software maintenance…

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Commit message is a document that summarizes source code changes in natural language. A good commit message clearly shows the source code changes, so this enhances collaboration between developers. Therefore, our work is to develop a model…

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Automatic generation of high-quality commit messages for code commits can substantially facilitate software developers' works and coordination. However, the semantic gap between source code and natural language poses a major challenge for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Lun Yiu Nie , Cuiyun Gao , Zhicong Zhong , Wai Lam , Yang Liu , Zenglin Xu

Commit messages are crucial for documenting software changes, aiding in program comprehension and maintenance. However, creating effective commit messages is often overlooked by developers due to time constraints and varying levels of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Varun Kumar Palakodeti , Abbas Heydarnoori

Commit messages explain code changes in a commit and facilitate collaboration among developers. Several commit message generation approaches have been proposed; however, they exhibit limited success in capturing the context of code changes.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Abhinav Reddy Mandli , Saurabhsingh Rajput , Tushar Sharma

Commit messages are essential in software development as they serve to document and explain code changes. Yet, their quality often falls short in practice, with studies showing significant proportions of empty or inadequate messages. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Qunhong Zeng , Yuxia Zhang , Zexiong Ma , Bo Jiang , Ningyuan Sun , Klaas-Jan Stol , Xingyu Mou , Hui Liu

A commit message is a textual description of the code changes in a commit, which is a key part of the Git version control system (VCS). It captures the essence of software updating. Therefore, it can help developers understand code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Linghao Zhang , Jingshu Zhao , Chong Wang , Peng Liang

Commit messages are natural language descriptions of code changes, which are important for program understanding and maintenance. However, writing commit messages manually is time-consuming and laborious, especially when the code is updated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Wei Tao , Yanlin Wang , Ensheng Shi , Lun Du , Shi Han , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Wenqiang Zhang

Commit messages record code changes (e.g., feature modifications and bug repairs) in natural language, and are useful for program comprehension. Due to the frequent updates of software and time cost, developers are generally unmotivated to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Shangqing Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Sen Chen , Lun Yiu Nie , Yang Liu

A key issue in collaborative software development is communication among developers. One modality of communication is a commit message, in which developers describe the changes they make in a repository. As such, commit messages serve as an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yingchen Tian , Yuxia Zhang , Klaas-Jan Stol , Lin Jiang , Hui Liu

Commit messages are explanations of changes made to a codebase that are stored in version control systems. They help developers understand the codebase as it evolves. However, writing commit messages can be tedious and inconsistent among…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Cristina V. Lopes , Vanessa I. Klotzman , Iris Ma , Iftekar Ahmed

Commit message generation (CMG) is a challenging task in automated software engineering that aims to generate natural language descriptions of code changes for commits. Previous methods all start from the modified code snippets, outputting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Liran Wang , Xunzhu Tang , Yichen He , Changyu Ren , Shuhua Shi , Chaoran Yan , Zhoujun Li

Applying machine learning to tasks that operate with code changes requires their numerical representation. In this work, we propose an approach for obtaining such representations during pre-training and evaluate them on two different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mikhail Pravilov , Egor Bogomolov , Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

Commit messages aid developers in their understanding of a continuously evolving codebase. However, developers not always document code changes properly. Automatically generating commit messages would relieve this burden on developers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-27 S. R. P. van Hal , M. Post , K. Wendel

Commit messages are crucial in software development, supporting maintenance tasks and communication among developers. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Commit Message Generation (CMG) using various software contexts, some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jiawei Li , David Faragó , Christian Petrov , Iftekhar Ahmed

A commit message describes the main code changes in a commit and plays a crucial role in software maintenance. Existing commit message generation (CMG) approaches typically frame it as a direct mapping which inputs a code diff and produces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Bo Xiong , Linghao Zhang , Chong Wang , Peng Liang

Commit messages are crucial in software development, supporting maintenance tasks and communication among developers. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Commit Message Generation (CMG) using various software contexts, some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jiawei Li , David Faragó , Christian Petrov , Iftekhar Ahmed

Commit messages concisely describe code changes in natural language and are important for software maintenance. Several approaches have been proposed to automatically generate commit messages, but they still suffer from critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yifan Wu , Yunpeng Wang , Ying Li , Wei Tao , Siyu Yu , Haowen Yang , Wei Jiang , Jianguo Li

Commit messages have an important impact in software development, especially when working in large teams. Multiple developers who have a different style of writing may often be involved in the same project. For this reason, it may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Nicolae-Teodor Pavel , Traian Rebedea

Representing code changes as numeric feature vectors, i.e., code change representations, is usually an essential step to automate many software engineering tasks related to code changes, e.g., commit message generation and just-in-time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Zhongxin Liu , Zhijie Tang , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang
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