Historef: A Tool for Edit History Refactoring

Historef is an Eclipse plug-in for edit history refactoring, which is a rewriting of edit history of source code for improving usability and/or understandability without changing its effect..

Available Features

• Recording edit history by OperationRecorder
• Applying edit history refactorings
• Undo/redo of edit history refactoring
• Automated/manual grouping of edits
• Committing refactored edits into Git repository

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Download

• jp.ac.titech.cs.se.historef_0.0.1.jar (Historef core)
• RefactoringChangeHistories_1.0.0.jar (A special version of OperationRecorder for historef)

This product is under development and the specifications would change in future.

Getting started

• Show views (Changes/Groups)
• Edit Java source code by using OperationRecorder editor (by Open with)
• Apply edit history refactoring by the buttons in Changes view

Related Publications

• [1] Shinpei Hayashi, Takayuki Omori, Teruyoshi Zenmyo, Katsuhisa Maruyama, Motoshi Saeki: "Refactoring Edit History of Source Code". In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), ERA Track, pp. 617-620. Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, 2012.

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