Patent attributes
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving a request to merge at least one code branch with a first code branch, wherein the at least one code branch and the first code branch comprise different versions of software code; and simulating the merge via: identifying the differences between the at least one code branch and the first code branch; generating a differences list comprising a list of (i) added code snippets, (ii) deleted code snippets, and (iii) changed code snippets, wherein code snippets are clustered in the differences list by difference chunks comprising connected code snippets; and building a relationship graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, wherein each of the plurality of nodes represent a difference chunk and wherein each of the plurality of edges comprise a relationship between two of the plurality of nodes; each of the plurality of edges comprise a cost vector.
