The dataset was sourced from GitHub repositories and scraped using https://github.com/cheop-byeon/RFCRationaleBuilder.

It contains two types: coding repositories and Internet-Drafts/RFCs technical documents drafting repositories.

We use the "diff" format to represent the "modification" ("snippet" as the second version, first version was trying to restore a complete expression, e.g., a whole function or a natural paragraph.)

The dataset can be downloaded using our provided script: download_CodeConvo.py. There are two directions: i2c and c2i. Here we borrow the GitHub terms, i (issue) refers to comment/review/feedback, c (code) referes to the edited code or document.

Dataset Download & Path Resolution Usage

CodeConvo Dataset

Basic Download

# Download entire CodeConvo dataset
python download_CodeConvo.py

Download Whole Repository with huggingface-cli

# Install CLI (if needed)
pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"

# Download full CodeConvo repository to local folder
huggingface-cli download jiebi/CodeConvo --repo-type dataset --local-dir ./dataset/CodeConvo

Path Resolution Examples

Train split (structure: train/{direction}/)

# Get train/c2i folder (default direction)
python download_CodeConvo.py --split train

# Get train/i2c folder
python download_CodeConvo.py --split train --direction i2c

Dev/Test splits (structure: {repo}/{direction}/{split}/)

# Get test data for specific repo and direction
python download_CodeConvo.py --split test --repo ids --direction c2i

# Get dev data for kubernetes repo (i2c direction)
python download_CodeConvo.py --split dev --repo kubernetes --direction i2c

# Other repos: ids, ids-supp, swe, kubernetes
python download_CodeConvo.py --split test --repo swe --direction i2c

Path resolution without downloading

# Only resolve path, skip download
python download_CodeConvo.py --split train --no-download
python download_CodeConvo.py --split test --repo ids --direction c2i --no-download

Notes

• For --split train: --direction is optional (defaults to c2i)
• For --split dev/test: Both --repo and --direction are required
• Valid directions: c2i, i2c
• Valid repos: ids, ids-supp, swe, kubernetes

The data was used for retrieval tasks, for training (https://github.com/cheop-byeon/FlagEmbedding) and for evaluation (https://github.com/cheop-byeon/mteb-R2Gen).

Citation

For data, use cases, and models, please refer to:

@article{bian2025automated,
  title={Automated insights into github collaboration dynamics},
  author={Bian, Jie and Arefev, Nikolay and M{\"u}hlh{\"a}user, Max and Welzl, Michael},
  journal={IEEE Access},
  year={2025},
  publisher={IEEE}
}