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Title: BDiff Experimental Dataset: Block-aware and Accurate Text-based Code Differencing Authors: Yao Lu Venue: Figshare Year: 2026 Canonical: doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.31896472 URL: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31896472 Collector: openalex OA: true ABSTRACT The repository is organized into three core directories, with the following structure:├── dataset/ Experimental dataset (real-world code change cases)│ ├── GhJava/ Real code change cases for Java language│ ├── GhPython/ Real code change cases for Python language│ └── GhXML/ Real code change cases for XML language├── experiment_scripts/ Scripts to run BDiff and reproduce experiments│ ├── BDiff.py Core implementation of BDiff in the experiment│ ├── LLM_prompt.txt Prompt templates for LLM-based baseline tools│ ├── bdiff_visualization_exporter.py Script to run BDiff and export results│ └── data_process.py Auxiliary scripts for experimental data processing├── experiment_results/ Experimental results reported in the paper│ ├── manual_evaluation_results/ Results of manual evaluation experiments│ |── mutation_experiment_results/ Results of mutation-based experiments│ |── bdiff_histogram.csv BDiff results using the histogram diff algorithm in Git as the base diff algorithm│ |── bdiff_minimal.csv BDiff results using the minimal diff algorithm in Git as the base diff algorithm│ |── bdiff_myers.csv BDiff results using the myers diff algorithm in Git as the base diff algorithm│ |── bdiff_patience.csv BDiff results using the patience diff algorithm in Git as the base diff algorithm│ |── bdiffeditscripts.csv Results produced by BDiff│ |── copyactions.csv Results of block copies produced by BDiff│ |── gpt5editscripts.csv Results produced by GPT-5-mini│ |── gumtreeeditscripts.csv Results produced by GumTree│ |── ldiffeditscripts.csv Results produced by ldiff│ |── moveactions.csv Results of block moves produced by BDiff│ |── projects.csv The GitHub projects used in the experiment│ |── qweneditscripts.csv Results produced by Qwen3-32B│ |── updateactions.csv Results of line updates produced by BDiff├── BDiff.py Implementation of BDiff in the experiment└── README.md Repository documentation (this file)Directory File Details1. dataset/This directory contains all real\-world code change cases used in the paper's experiments, collected from open\-source projects to reflect authentic developer editing behaviors including line-level and block-level edits such as move, copy, update, merge, split, etc.- GhJava/: Java language code change cases extracted from 10 GitHub projects (Produced by Falleri et al. for evaluating GumTree).- GhPython/: Python language code change cases extracted from 10 GitHub projects (Produced by Falleri et al. for evaluating GumTree).- GhXML/: XML language code change cases extracted from 10 GitHub projects.2. experiment_scripts/This directory provides executable scripts to run the BDiff tool, reproduce the paper's experiments, and process experimental data.- BDiff.py: The core implementation of the BDiff code differencing tool.- LLM\prompt.txt: Prompt used for LLM-based baseline tools in the paper's comparative experiments.- bdiff\visualization\exporter.py: A dedicated script to run the BDiff tool on the dataset and export structured edit script.- data\process.py: Auxiliary scripts for experimental data preprocessing, metric calculation, and result cleaning.3. experiment_results/This directory stores all experimental results reported in the paper, organized by experiment type for easy reference and reproduction.- manual evaluation results: Results of the manual evaluation experiment, including human-judged scores of BDiff and baseline tools.- mutation experiment results: Results of the mutation-based experiment, including the generated file in the "generated_files" folder and the experimental results.4. BDiff.pyImplementation of BDiff in the experiment.