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The general sentiment here is that it's a great project. Could someone please explain why? All I'm seeing is that laws are updated with commits within markdown
by MinimalAction 6mo ago
The general sentiment here is that it's a great project. Could someone please explain why? All I'm seeing is that laws are updated with commits within markdown files.
- xeromal 6mo agoThe why is that it's cool. Why it's not cool for you cannot be explained by us, only you.
- MinimalAction 6mo agoI didn't say it's not cool. I was trying to understand the utility of it being great.
- xeromal 6mo agoCoolness and greatness can be the same thing. For instance, the big Lebowski is great and cool.
- saadn92 6mo agoThe 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 Constitution in one command. git diff between any two reforms shows you exactly what changed in context. git blame tells you which reform touched which article. These are operations that would take a lawyer hours of cross-referencing, and they're free once the data is structured this way. The other great thing: you can build tooling on top of it and use it with the CLI.
- MinimalAction 6mo agoThanks for a beautiful explanation. Makes sense now that this repo enables git diff, git base to reveal changes easier.
- saadn92 6mo agoof course, thanks for asking a great question!