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Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by Terr_ » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 1:13 AM UTC

outside1234 wrote: post #9

Was thinking I was going to see a Merkle Tree here :)

"The Tree of Merkle must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by zaik » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 1:14 AM UTC

flobosg wrote: post #3

> a Git contribution graph Aka a heatmap.

Also contains some "git = GitHub"

Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by YmiYugy » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 1:17 AM UTC

This is nice, but it would be great to see some more features from VCS applied to laws, e.g. git blame and git log.

Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by notTooFarGone » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 1:23 AM UTC

qrush wrote: post #2

Oof. Did the Bundestag recently get promoted to be a manager?

They get promotions based on LoL (lines of laws)

Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 1:23 AM UTC

YmiYugy wrote: post #13

This is nice, but it would be great to see some more features from VCS applied to laws, e.g. git blame and git log.

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Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by nikeee » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 1:24 AM UTC

There are also a repository containing some laws in markdown format on GitHub. They even used PRs for actual changes proposed by the parties in the parliament. Also, the commits have their proper date, so you can `git blame` on the laws and even see which president signed-off that change.

Sadly, it is unmaintained.

https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze

Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by unit149 » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 1:56 AM UTC

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Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by notpushkin » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 2:00 AM UTC

mxschll wrote: post #4

flobosg wrote: post #3

> a Git contribution graph Aka a heatmap.

I learned early on it doesn't matter what's inside, but how you present it ;)

From the title, I expected anything but the heatmap to be honest!

Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by bjourne » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 2:04 AM UTC

YmiYugy wrote: post #13

This is nice, but it would be great to see some more features from VCS applied to laws, e.g. git blame and git log.

It exists. The "commits" to the legal code is published in a government gazette: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_gazette The current laws are just the tip of the main branch. In theory you could run a git blame and find out exactly which update inserted which specific words into the code. There is even branches in case of state succession, like the breakup of the USSR.

Re: German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph

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Post by jbaber » Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 2:12 AM UTC

Terr_ wrote: post #8

n2d4 wrote: post #6

I wish there were more beautiful government data aggregators like this one — most people don't even know how much stuff the gov makes publicly accessible (voluntarily or by means of FOIA), probably because it's all buried in 20-year-old Java applets. What similar resources are out there? Any favorites?

Washington DC's laws are in git. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-th...

This is wonderful.