Software24.11.2017
Most of GitHub is duplicate code – Study
A study has found that around 70% of the code on GitHub is duplicated, reported The Register.
Researchers set out to define how much files changed between different clones, but ended up discovering a very high rate of file-level duplication.
The research was conducted by the University of California at Irvine, and found that out of 428 million files on GitHub, 85 million were unique.
The report stated the findings have significant implications for research which relies on data from GitHub, as it would need to take this duplication into account.
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