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Le code civil français sous git

13 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2015-03-31 · latest 2026-03-28

Mentions per year 13 mentions · busiest year 2015 (8)
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  1. For older edits there is https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil Unfortunately Git is based on Unix timestamps so everything pre-1970 has the wrong date.
    comment by icpmoles · 2026-03-28 · in Spanish legislation as a Git repo
  2. that was a fun project: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil
    comment by zermelo · 2025-12-05 · in How Brussels writes so many laws
  3. …presented all the MPs work in a git repository. It really felt like the future of democracy: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/dfd5918f9...
  4. Consider github. German and French law is already there. https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil
  5. This exist for (part of) the french legal code: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil , https://github.com/Legilibre/Archeo-Lex This uses open data published by the governments at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/
    comment by Drup · 2017-02-07 · in H.R.387 – Email Privacy Act
  6. New laws are available in gif format: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/b805ecf05... Compare with what they usually look like: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/ta/ta0120.asp
    comment by ddebernardy · 2015-03-31 · in French civil code now on GitHub
  7. …the readme are articles. Or did you mean articles which were altered after their initial creation? https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commits/master/L... is one, it was added in 1803 and modified in 1986 and 2014.…
    comment by masklinn · 2015-03-31 · in French civil code now on GitHub
  8. There's a PR for that ;) https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/pull/1/files
    comment by phtrivier · 2015-03-31 · in French civil code now on GitHub
  9. …so it works perfectly. Here, as an example, the commit/law that legalizes same-sex marriage : https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/b805ecf05... You can clearly see that the "commit/law" changes the wordings of various files…
    comment by bolaft · 2015-03-31 · in French civil code now on GitHub
  10. …in France, but that's why the OP repo is great: you can see the actual change as a usual diff ( https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/0d5337622... ). I'm not sure how they do it, but I guess that it wouldn't be extremely hard…
    comment by arcatek · 2015-03-31 · in French civil code now on GitHub
  11. …source control. Period. Example Here is for example the commit which authorizes marriage for all: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commit/b805ecf05... This is more readable than, for example (cf…
    comment by mintplant · 2015-03-31 · in French civil code now on GitHub