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📦 FreeBSD CVS Archive (C/C++)

Dataset Summary

FreeBSD CVS Archive (C/C++) is a large-scale dataset of source code extracted from the historical FreeBSD CVS repository. The dataset focuses on C and C++ source files, providing structured samples suitable for code modeling, analysis, and benchmarking.

Each sample includes:

  • the dataset source
  • commit year
  • extracted code content
  • token count (computed using GPT tokenizer)

This dataset is designed for:

  • code language modeling
  • software evolution analysis
  • code understanding and generation
  • benchmarking LLMs on real-world system code

Dataset Structure

Each record follows a simple JSONL format:

{
  "Source": "freebsd-cvs-archive",
  "Date": 2003,
  "Text": "... C/C++ source code ...",
  "Token_count": 512
}

Fields

Source: Name of the dataset Date: Year extracted from CVS revision metadata Text: Raw C/C++ code snippet Token_count: Number of tokens computed using tiktoken (cl100k_base)

Source Data

The dataset is derived from:

FreeBSD CVS archive (historical version control system)

Processing

Processing Pipeline

The dataset was constructed using the following steps:

Parse CVS revision files Extract revision metadata (commit date → year) Extract text blocks (code sections between CVS delimiters) Filter samples (remove empty or short entries) Keep only C/C++ code Compute token counts using tiktoken Split into fixed-size JSONL shards