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Project brings Git-style version history to US federal law
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On October 28, 2026, Hacker News featured a project called "Git for US Legislation." It builds a traceable version history for US federal law in a Git-like way, replaying amendment instructions one by one to check that changes to the law match later versions. The report says the project handled 365 changes across nine titles since 2017, and 361 replays matched the next release point exactly. The report does not say what happened with the other four changes.
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- Hacker News front pageGit for US Legislation
一个名为“Git for US Legislation”的项目用类似 Git 的方式为美国联邦法律建立版本记录，对 2017 年以来九个标题下的 365 处变更逐一重放修正指令，其中 361 处与下一个 release point 完全一致。
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