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Commit messages play a key role in documenting the intent behind code changes. However, they are often low-quality, vague, or incomplete, limiting their usefulness. Commit Message Generation (CMG) aims to automatically generate descriptive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bo Xiong , Linghao Zhang , Zongen Ren , Chong Wang , Peng Liang

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…

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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 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

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

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

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 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 messages are crucial to software development, allowing developers to track changes and collaborate effectively. Despite their utility, most commit messages lack important information since writing high-quality commit messages is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Aleksandra Eliseeva , Yaroslav Sokolov , Egor Bogomolov , Yaroslav Golubev , Danny Dig , Timofey Bryksin

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

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 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 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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Tae-Hwan Jung

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 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 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 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 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 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 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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