{"id":239410,"date":"2017-11-24T11:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T09:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=239410"},"modified":"2017-11-24T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:01:25","slug":"most-of-github-is-duplicate-code-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/239410-most-of-github-is-duplicate-code-study.html","title":{"rendered":"Most of GitHub is duplicate code &#8211; Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study has found that around 70% of the code on GitHub is duplicated, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/11\/21\/github_duplicate_code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Register<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers set out to define how much files changed between different clones, but ended up discovering a very high rate of\u00a0file-level duplication.<\/p>\n<p>The research was conducted by the\u00a0University of California at Irvine, and\u00a0found that out of 428 million files on GitHub, 85 million were unique.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated the findings have significant implications for research which relies on data from GitHub, as it would need\u00a0to take this duplication into account.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/238890-uber-hack-shows-vulnerability-of-software-code-sharing-services.html\">Uber hack shows vulnerability of software code-sharing services<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study has found that around 70% of the code on GitHub is duplicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":210382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[47516,11253,15401],"class_list":["post-239410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-cloned-repositories","tag-github","tag-university-of-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239582,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239410\/revisions\/239582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}