Cloning and copying between GNOME projects

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Title	Cloning and copying between GNOME projects
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2010
Authors	Krinke, J, Gold, N, Jia, Y, Binkley, D
Secondary Title	2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010)2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010)
Pagination	98 - 101
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN Number	978-1-4244-6802-7
Keywords	clone, gnome, msr challenge, source code
Abstract	This paper presents an approach to automatically distinguish the copied clone from the original in a pair of clones. It matches the line-by-line version information of a clone to the pair's other clone. A case study on the GNOME Desktop Suite revealed a complex flow of reused code between the different subprojects. In particular, it showed that the majority of larger clones (with a minimal size of 28 lines or higher) exist between the subprojects and more than 60% of the clone pairs can be automatically separated into original and copy.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2010.5463290
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