I\'m doing research into software evolution and C#/.NET, specifically on identif

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I'm doing research into software evolution and C#/.NET, specifically on identifying refactorings from changesets, so I'm looking for a suitable (XP-like) project that may serve as a test subject for extracting refactorings from version control history.

Which open source C# projects have undergone large (number of) refactorings?

Criteria A suitable project has its change history publicly available, has compilable code at most commits and at least several refactorings applied in the past. It does not have to be well-known, and the code quality or number of bugs is irrelevant. Preferably the code is in a Git or SVN repository.

The result of this research will be a tool that automatically creates informative, concise comments for a changeset. This should improve on the common development practice of just not leaving any comments at all.

Explanation / Answer

Mono.cecil was heavily refactored in the 0.9 version if I am not mistaken. Up to that point it was in .net 1.1

Cecil is an open source project that you can use as an alternative to System.Reflection. As you can tell from the link the project's history is publicly available at github.

Since the project doesn't yet have a stable api chances are you'll get to see the changes happening in the future.

Good luck with the tool!

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