From 0c09cd80ce318c3eb64fc01adfc1e605b475255c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Alexander=20Schulthei=C3=9F?= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:34:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add TL;DR --- README.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 489d598..2fb2ff6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,6 +3,24 @@ This artifact contains the reproduction package for our paper [_Decades of GNU Patch and Git Cherry-Pick: Can We Do Better?_](https://lanpirot.github.io/publications/Decades_of_GNU_Patch_and_Git_Cherry-Pick_Can_We_Do_Better.pdf) which has been accepted to the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026). The artifact is licensed under a dual MIT - Apache 2.0 license. +## TL;DR - Reproducibility Demo + +> [!NOTE] Detailed installation and reproduction instructions can be found further below. + +We offer a minimal sample demonstration of our artifact which can be built and run with: + +```sh +git clone https://github.com/VariantSync/patching-with-matching-eval.git + +cd patching-with-matching-eval + +[sudo] ./build.sh + +[sudo] ./execute.sh verification +``` + +The results can then be inspected at "evaluation-workdir/metrics-verification.pdf" but they represent the results of only a fraction of the sample from which we generated Figure X in our paper. + ## Purpose The artifact should allow other researchers to reproduce our experiments and confirm the results which reported in our paper.