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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…

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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 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

High-quality commit messages are critical for maintaining software projects, yet ensuring their consistency and informativeness remains a practical challenge. While the Conventional Commits Specification (CCS) provides a structured format…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zirui Wan , Zhaonan Wu , Xinyi Hou , Yanjie Zhao , Pengcheng Xia , Haoyu Wang

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

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 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

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Maximilian Schall , Tamara Czinczoll , Gerard de Melo

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

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 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

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

Version control relies on commit messages to convey the rationale for code changes, but these messages are often low quality and, more critically, inconsistent with their diffs-known as message-code inconsistency (MCI). MCIs mislead…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Qingyu Zhang , Puzhuo Liu , Peng Di , Chenxiong Qian

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

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 Message Generation (CMG) approaches aim to automatically generate commit messages based on given code diffs, which facilitate collaboration among developers and play a critical role in Open-Source Software (OSS). Very recently, Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pengyu Xue , Linhao Wu , Zhongxing Yu , Zhi Jin , Zhen Yang , Xinyi Li , Zhenyu Yang , Yue Tan

Maintaining code quality in large-scale software systems presents significant challenges, particularly in settings where a large numbers of engineers work concurrently on a codebase. This paper introduces Code Quality Score (CQS) system to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Sherman Wong , Jalaj Bhandari , Leo Zhou Fan Yang , Xylan Xu , Yi Zhuang , Cem Cayiroglu , Payal Bhuptani , Sheela Yadawad , Hung Duong

Changes in source code are an inevitable part of software development. They are the results of indispensable activities such as fixing bugs or improving functionality. Descriptions for code changes (commit messages) help people better…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Thanh Trong Vu , Thanh-Dat Do , Hieu Dinh Vo

Commit messages play an important role in several software engineering tasks such as program comprehension and understanding program evolution. However, programmers neglect to write good commit messages. Hence, several Commit Message…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Samanta Dey , Venkatesh Vinayakarao , Monika Gupta , Sampath Dechu

Nowadays, systems containing components based on machine learning (ML) methods are becoming more widespread. In order to ensure the intended behavior of a software system, there are standards that define necessary quality aspects of the…

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