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What's in a GitHub Star? Understanding Repository Starring Practices in a Social Coding Platform

Hudson Borges, Marco Tulio Valente

Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or s…