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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

As AI coding agents become both primary producers and consumers of source code, the software industry faces an accelerating loss of institutional knowledge. Each commit captures a code diff but discards the reasoning behind it - the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ivan Stetsenko

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

Social aspects in software development teams are of particular importance for a successful project closure. To analyze sentiments in software projects, there are several tools and approaches available. These tools analyze text-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Marc Herrmann , Martin Obaidi , Jil Klünder

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

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

GitHub commits, which record the code changes with natural language messages for description, play a critical role for software developers to comprehend the software evolution. To promote the development of the open-source software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Shangqing Liu , Yanzhou Li , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu

Large reasoning models (LRMs) like OpenAI-o1 have shown impressive capabilities in natural language reasoning. However, these models frequently demonstrate inefficiencies or inaccuracies when tackling complex mathematical operations. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Chengpeng Li , Zhengyang Tang , Ziniu Li , Mingfeng Xue , Keqin Bao , Tian Ding , Ruoyu Sun , Benyou Wang , Xiang Wang , Junyang Lin , Dayiheng Liu

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

Commit message is one of the most important textual information in software development and maintenance. However, it is time-consuming to write commit messages manually. Commit Message Generation (CMG) has become a research hotspot.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Linghao Zhang , Hongyi Zhang , Chong Wang , Peng Liang

The availability of open-source projects facilitates developers to contribute and collaborate on a wide range of projects. As a result, the developer community contributing to such open-source projects is also increasing. Many of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

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

This paper describes the design and functionality of ConvoKit, an open-source toolkit for analyzing conversations and the social interactions embedded within. ConvoKit provides an unified framework for representing and manipulating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jonathan P. Chang , Caleb Chiam , Liye Fu , Andrew Z. Wang , Justine Zhang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

How do we update AI memory of user intent as intent changes? We consider how an AI interface may assist the integration of new information into a repository of natural language data. Inspired by software engineering concepts like impact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Priyan Vaithilingam , Munyeong Kim , Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau , Daniel Lee , Amine Mhedhbi , Elena L. Glassman , Ian Arawjo

Commit messages in a version control system provide valuable information for developers regarding code changes in software systems. Commit messages can be the only source of information left for future developers describing what was changed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yousab Grees , Polina Iaremchuk , Ramtin Ehsani , Esteban Parra , Preetha Chatterjee , Sonia Haiduc

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

Software repositories such as Git have become a relevant source of information for software engineer researcher. For instance, the detection of Commits that fulfill a given criterion (e.g., bugfixing commits) is one of the most frequent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Matias Martinez , Martin Monperrus

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

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

Due to the proliferation of short-form content and the rapid adoption of AI, opportunities for deep, reflective thinking have significantly diminished, undermining users' critical thinking and reducing engagement with the reasoning behind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Seunghyun Yoo