HAFixAgent: History-Aware Agentic Program Repair
arXiv:2511.01047v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated program repair (APR) has recently shifted toward large language models and agent-based systems, while prior work shows that repository history can help repair single-line bugs. We conduct a large-scale empirical study of whether, how much, and under what conditions repository history improves agentic APR beyond this setting. We present HAFixAgent, a history-aware program repair agent that injects blame-derived repository contex…