Section: New Software and Platforms

Prequel

Keywords: Code search - Git

Scientific Description: The commit history of a code base such as the Linux kernel is a gold mine of information on how evolutions should be made, how bugs should be fixed, etc. Nevertheless, the high volume of commits available and the rudimentary filtering tools provided mean that it is often necessary to wade through a lot of irrelevant information before finding example commits that can help with a specific software development problem. To address this issue, we propose Prequel (Patch Query Language), which brings the descriptive power of code matching to the problem of querying a commit history.

Functional Description: Prequel is a tool for searching for complex patterns in the commits of software managed using git.

• Participants: Gilles Muller and Julia Lawall

• Partners: LIP6 - IRILL

• Contact: Julia Lawall

• URL: http://prequel-pql.gforge.inria.fr/