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Syntactic software merging

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Software Configuration Management (SCM 1993, SCM 1995)

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Abstract

Software merging is the process of combining multiple existing versions of a source file, to produce a new version. Typically, the goal is for the new version to implement some kind of union of the features implemented by the existing versions. A variety of merge tools are available, but software merging is still a tedious process, and mistakes are easy to make. This paper describes the fundamentals of merging, surveys the known methods of software merging, including a method based on programming-language syntax, and discusses a set of tools that perform syntactic merging.

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Buffenbarger, J. (1995). Syntactic software merging. In: Estublier, J. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM SCM 1993 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60578-9_14

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