Public Git Archive: a Big Code dataset for all

Understand

The number of open source software projects has been growing exponentially.

• The major online software repository host, GitHub, has accumulated tens of millions of publicly available Git version-controlled repositories.
• Although the research potential enabled by the available open source code is clearly substantial, no significant large-scale open source code datasets exist.
• In this paper, we present the Public Git Archive -- dataset of 182,014 top-bookmarked Git repositories from GitHub.