metadata
license: mit
task_categories:
- text-classification
- zero-shot-classification
- summarization
- text2text-generation
- sentence-similarity
tags:
- chemistry
- biology
- finance
- legal
- music
- art
- code
- climate
- medical
pretty_name: One million commits
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
One million commits
A large variety of git commits pulled from across GitHub.
Created by William Entriken, released 2023-09-26, version 1.
This composition is licensed under the MIT license.
Intended use
This dataset could be used to train a model concerned with programming tasks:
- Summarize some programming work
- Perform work given a description of the work to do
- Learn-by-example the syntax for all active programming languages and structured data formats
This dataset could be used to train a model concerned with scoring and trend analysis:
- Identify trends in programming across years
- Compare popularity and impact of programming topics/languages (using stars, quality as a signal)
- Score programming work as good or bad (using authors' ratings as a signal)
- Identify popular project file layouts for each programming language
Because this dataset comprises about a half terabyte of text, it may be useful for a training a general text processing model. Or at least a niche of such a model.
Factors
An attempt was made at providing a large variety of repositories. To example the potential biases, here is a comparison of our dataset to sampling at random from the list of all commits across GitHub.
- This dataset should overrepresent repositories with 7+ character words.
- This dataset should overrepresent repositories with few commits (because only one commit is included per repository).
- This dataset should overrepresent repositories from authors with many repositories.
Metrics
- Commits: 1,000,000
- Distinct repositories: 1,000,000
- Distinct authors: xxx
- Bytes:
Data format
The files are distributed as SQLite databases with the schema:
CREATE TABLE commits (repo_full_name TEXT UNIQUE, repo JSON, `commit` JSON, commit_patch TEXT, author JSON);
Each repository is included at most once, which is why repo_full_name is a unique key. The commit_patch is the full .patch file for the commit. Other columns repo, commit and author are JSON blobs following the GitHub API schema:
repository
{
"title": "Repo Search Result Item",
"description": "Repo Search Result Item",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer"
},
"node_id": {
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"full_name": {
"type": "string"
},
"owner": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "null"
},
{
"title": "Simple User",
"description": "A GitHub user.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"email": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"login": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"octocat"
]
},
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"examples": [
1
]
},
"node_id": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"MDQ6VXNlcjE="
]
},
"avatar_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif"
]
},
"gravatar_id": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"examples": [
"41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7"
]
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
]
},
"html_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://github.com/octocat"
]
},
"followers_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers"
]
},
"following_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}"
]
},
"gists_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}"
]
},
"starred_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}"
]
},
"subscriptions_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions"
]
},
"organizations_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs"
]
},
"repos_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos"
]
},
"events_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}"
]
},
"received_events_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events"
]
},
"type": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"User"
]
},
"site_admin": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"starred_at": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"\"2020-07-09T00:17:55Z\""
]
}
},
"required": [
"avatar_url",
"events_url",
"followers_url",
"following_url",
"gists_url",
"gravatar_id",
"html_url",
"id",
"node_id",
"login",
"organizations_url",
"received_events_url",
"repos_url",
"site_admin",
"starred_url",
"subscriptions_url",
"type",
"url"
]
}
]
},
"private": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"html_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"description": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"fork": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"created_at": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"updated_at": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"pushed_at": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"homepage": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"format": "uri"
},
"size": {
"type": "integer"
},
"stargazers_count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"watchers_count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"language": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"forks_count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"open_issues_count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"master_branch": {
"type": "string"
},
"default_branch": {
"type": "string"
},
"score": {
"type": "number"
},
"forks_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"keys_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"collaborators_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"teams_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"hooks_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"issue_events_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"events_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"assignees_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"branches_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"tags_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"blobs_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"git_tags_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"git_refs_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"trees_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"statuses_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"languages_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"stargazers_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"contributors_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"subscribers_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"subscription_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"commits_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"git_commits_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"comments_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"issue_comment_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"contents_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"compare_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"merges_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"archive_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"downloads_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"issues_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"pulls_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"milestones_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"notifications_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"labels_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"releases_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"deployments_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"git_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"ssh_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"clone_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"svn_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"forks": {
"type": "integer"
},
"open_issues": {
"type": "integer"
},
"watchers": {
"type": "integer"
},
"topics": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"mirror_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"format": "uri"
},
"has_issues": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"has_projects": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"has_pages": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"has_wiki": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"has_downloads": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"has_discussions": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"archived": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"disabled": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Returns whether or not this repository disabled."
},
"visibility": {
"description": "The repository visibility: public, private, or internal.",
"type": "string"
},
"license": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "null"
},
{
"title": "License Simple",
"description": "License Simple",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"key": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"mit"
]
},
"name": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"MIT License"
]
},
"url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/licenses/mit"
]
},
"spdx_id": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"examples": [
"MIT"
]
},
"node_id": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"MDc6TGljZW5zZW1pdA=="
]
},
"html_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
}
},
"required": [
"key",
"name",
"url",
"spdx_id",
"node_id"
]
}
]
},
"permissions": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"admin": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"maintain": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"push": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"triage": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"pull": {
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"admin",
"pull",
"push"
]
},
"text_matches": {
"title": "Search Result Text Matches",
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"object_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"object_type": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"property": {
"type": "string"
},
"fragment": {
"type": "string"
},
"matches": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"text": {
"type": "string"
},
"indices": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "integer"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"temp_clone_token": {
"type": "string"
},
"allow_merge_commit": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"allow_squash_merge": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"allow_rebase_merge": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"allow_auto_merge": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"delete_branch_on_merge": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"allow_forking": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"is_template": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"web_commit_signoff_required": {
"type": "boolean",
"examples": [
false
]
}
},
"required": [
"archive_url",
"assignees_url",
"blobs_url",
"branches_url",
"collaborators_url",
"comments_url",
"commits_url",
"compare_url",
"contents_url",
"contributors_url",
"deployments_url",
"description",
"downloads_url",
"events_url",
"fork",
"forks_url",
"full_name",
"git_commits_url",
"git_refs_url",
"git_tags_url",
"hooks_url",
"html_url",
"id",
"node_id",
"issue_comment_url",
"issue_events_url",
"issues_url",
"keys_url",
"labels_url",
"languages_url",
"merges_url",
"milestones_url",
"name",
"notifications_url",
"owner",
"private",
"pulls_url",
"releases_url",
"stargazers_url",
"statuses_url",
"subscribers_url",
"subscription_url",
"tags_url",
"teams_url",
"trees_url",
"url",
"clone_url",
"default_branch",
"forks",
"forks_count",
"git_url",
"has_downloads",
"has_issues",
"has_projects",
"has_wiki",
"has_pages",
"homepage",
"language",
"archived",
"disabled",
"mirror_url",
"open_issues",
"open_issues_count",
"license",
"pushed_at",
"size",
"ssh_url",
"stargazers_count",
"svn_url",
"watchers",
"watchers_count",
"created_at",
"updated_at",
"score"
]
}
commit
{
"title": "Commit",
"description": "Commit",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e"
]
},
"sha": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e"
]
},
"node_id": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"MDY6Q29tbWl0NmRjYjA5YjViNTc4NzVmMzM0ZjYxYWViZWQ2OTVlMmU0MTkzZGI1ZQ=="
]
},
"html_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/commit/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e"
]
},
"comments_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e/comments"
]
},
"commit": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e"
]
},
"author": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "null"
},
{
"title": "Git User",
"description": "Metaproperties for Git author/committer information.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"\"Chris Wanstrath\""
]
},
"email": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"\"chris@ozmm.org\""
]
},
"date": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"\"2007-10-29T02:42:39.000-07:00\""
]
}
}
}
]
},
"committer": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "null"
},
{
"title": "Git User",
"description": "Metaproperties for Git author/committer information.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"\"Chris Wanstrath\""
]
},
"email": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"\"chris@ozmm.org\""
]
},
"date": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"\"2007-10-29T02:42:39.000-07:00\""
]
}
}
}
]
},
"message": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"Fix all the bugs"
]
},
"comment_count": {
"type": "integer",
"examples": [
0
]
},
"tree": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"sha": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"827efc6d56897b048c772eb4087f854f46256132"
]
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/tree/827efc6d56897b048c772eb4087f854f46256132"
]
}
},
"required": [
"sha",
"url"
]
},
"verification": {
"title": "Verification",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"verified": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"reason": {
"type": "string"
},
"payload": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"signature": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"required": [
"verified",
"reason",
"payload",
"signature"
]
}
},
"required": [
"author",
"committer",
"comment_count",
"message",
"tree",
"url"
]
},
"author": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "null"
},
{
"title": "Simple User",
"description": "A GitHub user.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"email": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"login": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"octocat"
]
},
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"examples": [
1
]
},
"node_id": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"MDQ6VXNlcjE="
]
},
"avatar_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif"
]
},
"gravatar_id": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"examples": [
"41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7"
]
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
]
},
"html_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://github.com/octocat"
]
},
"followers_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers"
]
},
"following_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}"
]
},
"gists_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}"
]
},
"starred_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}"
]
},
"subscriptions_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions"
]
},
"organizations_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs"
]
},
"repos_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos"
]
},
"events_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}"
]
},
"received_events_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events"
]
},
"type": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"User"
]
},
"site_admin": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"starred_at": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"\"2020-07-09T00:17:55Z\""
]
}
},
"required": [
"avatar_url",
"events_url",
"followers_url",
"following_url",
"gists_url",
"gravatar_id",
"html_url",
"id",
"node_id",
"login",
"organizations_url",
"received_events_url",
"repos_url",
"site_admin",
"starred_url",
"subscriptions_url",
"type",
"url"
]
}
]
},
"committer": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "null"
},
{
"title": "Simple User",
"description": "A GitHub user.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"email": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"login": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"octocat"
]
},
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"examples": [
1
]
},
"node_id": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"MDQ6VXNlcjE="
]
},
"avatar_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif"
]
},
"gravatar_id": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"examples": [
"41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7"
]
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
]
},
"html_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://github.com/octocat"
]
},
"followers_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers"
]
},
"following_url": {
"type": "string",
"examples": [
"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}"
]
},
"gists_url": {
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Methodology
A set of some random words were started as a seed. Then a search was performed against the GitHub API using one of those words, a random acceptable license, a random sort order and direction. Then from each repository, one of the most recent 1,000 commits was randomly selected. And words over seven characters were added back to the random word set. This process repeated one million times.
The acceptable licenses were chosen to include every license which allows that commit to be included in this dataset without me including one million separate licenses notices. Those are (identified by SPDX identifier):
apache-2.0bsl-1.0bsd-2-clausebsd-3-clause0bsdcc0-1.0wtfpliscmitpostgresqlunlicensezlib
These licenses are identified in the dataset so you are easily able to filter if needed.
Ethical considerations
Commits on GitHub include author contact information, which is publicly available to anybody even without a GitHub account. This dataset includes that contact information in each commit. This dataset creates a risk for spam unwanted outreach.
I considered whether it was appropriate to attempt redacting such information from the commit patches and contents, and ultimately decided against this.
Taking my own experience in receiving mail I have found that the vast majority of outreach to my GitHub email address (filtered through Gmail) is seemingly legitimate research requests and genuine interview requests, compared to zero apparent evil phishing or selling attempts. And practically, I understand it would be more effective and trivial for an evil spammer to look up individual author's contact information or to harvest it for a specific topic using the GitHub API than downloading and parsing this terabyte-scale dataset.
So overall, the risk was deemed acceptable.
Caveats and recommendations
The database is not normalized. So you may find that author information in one commit does not match that same author's information in another commit. This is simply an artifact of the data collection process having taken course over a period of weeks rather than a single snapshot.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to these people for sharing their GitHub API keys to aid in this research: Dan Tedesco, @037, Sandeep Pani, Axelle Moortgat
Citation
Please cite this dataset as:
@misc{entriken_2023_onemillioncommits,
author = {William Entriken},
title = {``One million commits''},
year = 2023,
howpublished = {Hugging Face datasets},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/fulldecent/one-million-commits}
}