District of Columbia law and statutes as a Git repo

Re:District of Columbia law and statutes as a Git repo by taaron on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:14PM (#43017009)

Was looking around for examples of git for complex document/policy management outside of software/code and found this repo where the Council of the District of Columbia stores its statues and code as code in a git repo with a full history of commit changes, diffs etc.

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Re:District of Columbia law and statutes as a Git repo by jauntywundrkind on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:49PM (#43018175)

It was amazing days in DC with Tom MacWright building the initial tools to make this so. It'd be so amazing for all governments to do this, to make the law (& how it changes over time) readily available.

You'll have to copy paste this, since Tom blocks HN: https://macwright.com/2013/04/16/dc-code-hackathon

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Re:District of Columbia law and statutes as a Git repo by taaron on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:27PM (#43018585)

Exactly - the amount of transparency provided by this commit history and diff is really cool. So many ways git features provide some interesting ideas e.g. could PRs be a way to track changes from different parties or even citizen groups? Could PR reviews/comments be a way to capture public discourse?

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