Edit: oops! I replied after reading the content in an 8 hours old tab, not noticing that the repo author had already explained it in a sibling post to this one.

Edit: oops! I replied after reading the content in an 8 hours old tab, not noticing that the repo author had already explained it in a sibling post to this one. ----------------------------------- From their README, it's just someone that converted the XML version published by the "Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz" (Ministry of Justice and for Customer Protection) which as they note is available at http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ For instance, a section I've used often for running my business is the VAT part: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ustg_1980/index.html http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ustg_1980/index.html There is a notification service, including an RSS feed: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aktuDienst.html http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/aktuDienst.html About the Markdown version in GitHub: after a quick inspection, most diffs seem to be plain additions of content, presumably as it was converted to Markdown. However, some diffs might have tracked changes in the laws, as this one: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze/commit/3c1bada22f08b4e0c8a608fe3504eb1a24bd44df https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze/commit/3c1bada22f08b4e0... I suspect the author ran the converter a few times and then abandoned it. In principle, it should be possible to keep updating it. The improvement over the official XML version seems to be that with Markdown it's easier to get understandable diffs.