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The German parliament even has an official git repository: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze Looks like it's been abandoned, though. :(
The GitHub org being called “bundestag” doesn’t mean that it’s anything official. It looks like it’s made by independent activists.
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It seems the commits aren't in proper date order. Here are some newer changes, placed before the latest commits: https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es/commits/master/?af...
It's related to commits actually having a parent-child structure (forming a graph) and timestamps (commit/author) being metadata. So commits 1->2->3->4 could be modified to have timestamps 1->3->2->4. I know GitHub prefers sorting with author over commit date, but don't know how topology is handled.
Yeah, I think everyone is aware. It's just that the last couple dozen commits, to me, looked like commits had been created in chronological order, so that topological order == chronological order.
> I know GitHub prefers sorting with author over commit date, but don't know how topology is handled.
Commits are usually sorted topologically.
It would have been cool if the commit authors reflected the actual politicians responsible for the reforms. Find a law, run `git blame` and immediately know who’s responsible for it
Whenever a law is about to be changed/removed, run all the tests to make sure no regressions.
Testing may not exhaust all scenarios but it is useful to see where loopholes may exist or whether a bill that sneaks in while you aren't paying attention is unfavorable to your values.
https://github.com/righttoprivacyact/bill/blob/main/tests/te...
Great idea! I hope you did something like: $ git commit --amend --author="Author Name " --no-edit .. with the details for the author of each commit. Then, it would be simply amazing to run gource, sit back, and watch where all the noise is coming from. Gource: https://github.com/acaudwell/gource What gource looks like: https://gource.io/ I’ve long wanted to see gource applied in other sociologically-relevant contexts…
It would have been cool if the commit authors reflected the actual politicians responsible for the reforms. Find a law, run `git blame` and immediately know who’s responsible for it
And even more useful would be unit-tests -- here is a loophole and here is the law preventing it. Whenever a law is about to be changed/removed, run all the tests to make sure no regressions.
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The value is in the semantics git gives you for free once the data is in this shape. Right now if you want to understand how a law changed, you go to the official gazette website and read a document that says "strike paragraph 3 of article 12 and replace with the following text." You're doing the diff in your head. With this repo, git log --oneline -- spain/BOE-A-1978-31229.md gives you every reform to the Spanish Co…
Thanks for a beautiful explanation. Makes sense now that this repo enables git diff, git base to reveal changes easier.
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Your enthusiasm is remarkable.
I come from a society that doesn't value compassion that much, so now when I live in Spain which has a lot of it, it's hard not to feel good about it. Wish it was the same in more places in the world, we're all human after all.
It would have been cool if the commit authors reflected the actual politicians responsible for the reforms. Find a law, run `git blame` and immediately know who’s responsible for it
And even more useful would be unit-tests -- here is a loophole and here is the law preventing it. Whenever a law is about to be changed/removed, run all the tests to make sure no regressions.
If the full compliment of software development practices were applied to legislation and ordinances we would be living in a very different world.