Someone Put 8,642 Spanish Laws Into a Git Repo. Every Reform Is a Commit.

An individual recently uploaded 8,642 Spanish laws to a Git repo. A commit was made for every reform. This is not a figure of speech. A pipeline was developed by a programmer named Enrique López to extract each consolidated Spanish law from the BOE API, transform it into Markdown, and monitor every legislative reform in the form of a dated Git commit. The repository contains over 27,000 commits. Each one, and its corresponding historical date, represent a genuine legal modification. You can git diff the Spanish tax code. Laws Are Just Patches Ponder that for a moment. Politicians have been generating laws based on existing laws for hundreds of years. "Eliminate paragraph 3 and substitute it with..." That's literally what a modification is. It's an update on top of an update on top of an update. We've had a mechanism to improve the process since 2005. We just haven't used it. The Spanish project isn't alone. France built OpenFisca to convert tax law into executable code. New Zealand lau