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Writing commit messages is a tedious daily task for many software developers, and often remains neglected. Automating this task has the potential to save time while ensuring that messages are informative. A high-quality dataset and an…

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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.…

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We propose a novel task of jointly repairing program codes and generating commit messages. Code repair and commit message generation are two essential and related tasks for software development. However, existing work usually performs the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jiaqi Bai , Long Zhou , Ambrosio Blanco , Shujie Liu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou , Zhoujun Li

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hongyu Kuang , Ning Zhang , Hui Gao , Xin Zhou , Wesley K. G. Assunção , Xiaoxing Ma , Dong Shao , Guoping Rong , He Zhang

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 provide descriptions of the modifications made in a commit using natural language, making them crucial for software maintenance and evolution. Recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their use in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aaron Imani , Iftekhar Ahmed , Mohammad Moshirpour

Corrective maintenance is crucial to ensure the quality of software, thereby improving reliability and user experience. In a version control system (VCS), developers write commit messages to document their changes and support later…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Syful Islam , Stefano Zacchiroli

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

In collaborative open-source development, the rationale for code changes is often captured in commit messages, making them a rich source of valuable information. However, research on rationale in commit messages remains limited. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Mouna Dhaouadi , Bentley James Oakes , Michalis Famelis

Commit messages (CMs) are an essential part of version control. By providing important context in regard to what has changed and why, they strongly support software maintenance and evolution. But writing good CMs is difficult and often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 David Faragó , Michael Färber , Christian Petrov

Commit messages are a valuable resource in comprehension of software evolution, since they provide a record of changes such as feature additions and bug repairs. Unfortunately, programmers often neglect to write good commit messages.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-09-01 Siyuan Jiang , Ameer Armaly , Collin McMillan

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

Commit messages play a crucial role in collaborative software development. They provide a clear and concise description of the changes made to the source code. However, many commit messages among students' projects lack useful information.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Iris Ma , Cristina V. Lopes

Committing to a version control system means submitting a software change to the system. Each commit can have a message to describe the submission. Several approaches have been proposed to automatically generate the content of such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Siyuan Jiang , Collin McMillan

Commit messages are important for software development and maintenance. Many neural network-based approaches have been proposed and shown promising results on automatic commit message generation. However, the generated commit messages could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ensheng Shi , Yanlin Wang , Wei Tao , Lun Du , Hongyu Zhang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Hongbin Sun

Commit messages are the atomic level of software documentation. They provide a natural language description of the code change and its purpose. Messages are critical for software maintenance and program comprehension. Unlike documenting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Jiaqian Liu , Kenneth Addo , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian Newman , Ali Ouni , Zhe Yu

Commit messages are natural language descriptions of code changes, which are important for software evolution such as code understanding and maintenance. However, previous methods are trained on the entire dataset without considering the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Wei Tao , Yucheng Zhou , Yanlin Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Haofen Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

Software maintenance constitutes a substantial portion of the total lifetime costs of software, with a significant portion attributed to code comprehension. Software comprehension is eased by documentation such as comments that summarize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Skyler Grandel , Scott Thomas Andersen , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

Pre-trained code models have emerged as crucial tools in various code intelligence tasks. However, their effectiveness depends on the quality of the pre-training dataset, particularly the human reference comments, which serve as a bridge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Kang Yang , Xinjun Mao , Shangwen Wang , Tanghaoran Zhang , Bo Lin , Yanlin Wang , Yihao Qin , Zhang Zhang , Xiaoguang Mao

Goal models have been widely used in Computer Science to represent software requirements, business objectives, and design qualities. Existing goal modelling techniques, however, have shown limitations of expressiveness and/or tractability…

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