Mining Evolutionary Data
Version-control data is our software-development equivalent to spatial movement in geographical profiling. A version-control system—such as Subversion, Git, or Mercurial—records the steps each developer took. I focus on Git in my examples, but you can find an overview of how to mine data from other systems in the Code Maat documentation.[8]
The first codebase we’ll study is Code Maat. That’s right—we’ll use our analysis tool to analyze the tool itself. I’m a Lisp programmer—we love circular stuff like that.
To follow along with the examples, you need to clone the Code Maat repository[9] so that you have the complete source tree on your computer:
| | prompt> git clone https://github.com/adamtornhill/code-maat.git |
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