HOholtwick·Oct 28, 2026
German Constitution "Grundgesetz" on Github with proper time stamps
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Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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Observed mentions: 2019-10-23 21:21:53 UTC to 2026-10-28 07:11:46 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesIn my opinion that is a bug with the format of laws and legislation in the UK and especially the US though.
Laws in countries with codified Napoleonic legal tradition have no problems changing the text of the laws on the book. Yes, tracking the parliamentary debate and proposals would be messy, but tracking the changes in the articles of the law isn’t. This is a simple GitHub version of the German constitution for instance (picking an article that actually has been amended, here the one about the military draft and conscription):
https://github.com/c3e/grundgesetz/blame/master/012a.md
In Constitution of the United States Website has removed sectionsGerman "Grundgesetz" (basic law/constitution) as Git repository
13 points · Open discussionccc Essen did a quite sophisticated project in 2013 regarding the German Grundgesetz (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5756354)
https://github.com/c3e/DocPatch
docpatch genereates neat versioned markdown like this:
https://github.com/c3e/grundgesetz
now also here with the rest of german law text:
https://github.com/bundestag/grundgesetz
In US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits