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Random Generation of Git Graphs

Génération aléatoire des graphes de Git

Abstract

Version Control Systems, such as Git and Mercurial, manage the history of a project as a Directed Acyclic Graph encoding the various divergences and synchronizations happening in its life cycle. A popular workflow in the industry, called the feature branch workflow, constrains these graphs to be of a particular shape: a unique main branch, and non-interfering feature branches. Here we focus on the uniform random generation of those graphs with n vertices, including k on the main branch, for which we provide three algorithms, for three different use-cases. The first, based on rejection, is efficient when aiming for small values of k (more precisely whenever k = O(√ n)). The second takes as input any number k of commits in the main branch, but requires costly precalculation. The last one is a Boltzmann generator and enables us to generate very large graphs while targeting a constant k/n ratio. All these algorithms are linear in the size of their outputs.
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hal-04487862 , version 1 (04-03-2024)
hal-04487862 , version 2 (24-06-2024)

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Julien Courtiel, Martin Pépin. Random Generation of Git Graphs. GASCom 2024, Jun 2024, Talence, France, France. pp.79-86, ⟨10.4204/EPTCS.403.18⟩. ⟨hal-04487862v2⟩
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