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Cherry-picking of code commits in long-running, multi-release software

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Panuchart Bunyakiati,

Chadarat PhipathananunthAuthors Info & Claims

ESEC/FSE 2017: Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering

Pages 994 - 998

https://doi.org/10.1145/3106237.3122818

Published: 21 August 2017 Publication History

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This paper presents Tartarian, a tool that supports maintenance of software with long-running, multi-release branches in distributed version control systems. When new maintenance code, such as bug fixes and code improvement, is committed into a branch, it is likely that such code can be applied or reused with some other branches. To do so, a developer may manually identify a commit and cherry pick it. Tartarian can support this activity by providing commit hashtags, which the developer uses as metadata to specify their intentions when committing the code. With these tags, Tartarian uses dependency graph, that represents the dependency constraints of the branches, and Branch Identifier, which matches the commit hashtags with the dependency graph, to identify the applicable branches for the commits. Using Tartarian, developers may be able to maintain software with multiple releases more efficiently. A video demo of Tartarian is available at www.github.com/tartarian.

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Cherry-picking of code commits in long-running, multi-release software
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
    2. Software post-development issues
      1. Maintaining software
      2. Software version control
  2. Software notations and tools

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ESEC/FSE 2017: Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering

August 2017

1073 pages

ISBN:9781450351058

DOI:10.1145/3106237

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Eric Bodden
Paderborn University, Germany / Fraunhofer IEM, Germany
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Paderborn University, Germany
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Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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Andrea Zisman
Open University, UK

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