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Add feature to indicate if a commit has a "twin" #147

Closed copernico closed 1 year ago

copernico commented 3 years ago

It is common, for "important" commits, to be back-ported to other branches; in particular, security fixes can be often found replicated across a number of branches, so this characteristic can be useful to find them.

Open questions:

copernico commented 3 years ago

Could be that Chapter 3 of Ullman's MMDS is what we need?

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds/book.pdf

copernico commented 3 years ago

Or maybe a less sophisticated approach could be just checking if two commit messages are the same. Not perfect but useful (and it can be replaced with a more advanced method later on).