30% Less is More: GitClear Releases Research on 12,638 Pull Requests
GitClear utilizes the largest known set of pull requests to investigate the extent to which the lines labeled "changes" by GitHub are in fact substantively changed. The company finds that the Myers diff algorithm (released 1986) used by GitHub and others results in 25-30% more code lines to review, relative to a more modern code diffing tool. - June 14, 2024
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