The Software Heritage Graph Dataset: Large-scale Analysis of Public Software Development History

Antoine Pietri, Diomidis Spinellis, Stefano Zacchiroli

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Abstract

Software Heritage is the largest existing public archive of software source code and accompanying development history. It spans more than five billion unique source code files and one billion unique commits, coming from more than 80 million software projects. These software artifacts were retrieved from major collaborative development platforms (e.g., GitHub, GitLab) and package repositories (e.g., PyPI, Debian, NPM), and stored in a uniform representation linking together source code files, directories, commits, and full snapshots of version control systems (VCS) repositories as observed by Software Heritage during periodic crawls. This dataset is unique in terms of accessibility and scale, and allows to explore a number of research questions on the long tail of public software development, instead of solely focusing on "most starred"repositories as it often happens.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1-5
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450379571
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Jun 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020, co-located with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2020 - Virtual, Online, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 29 Jun 202030 Jun 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020

Conference

Conference17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2020, co-located with the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2020
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityVirtual, Online
Period29/06/2030/06/20

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