ICicpmoles·Mar 28, 2026
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.
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Le code civil français sous git
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 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 |
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13 sourcesthat was a fun project: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil
In How Brussels writes so many lawsA few years ago, while the French parliament was discussing the modifications in law to allow gay marriage, many people were scrutinizing amendments and proposed amendment, and a developer 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...
In How I changed the law with a GitHub pull requestConsider github.
German and French law is already there.
https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze
https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil
In Three hundred and sixty years of United States caselawThis 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/
In H.R.387 – Email Privacy ActThe French Patrioct Act in One Pull Request
1 points · Open discussionNew 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
In French civil code now on GitHub> i couldnt find any other versioncontrolled articles.
Did you look? All markdown files aside from 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.
https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/commits/a191667d... is also one, with modifications in 1986, 1987, 2007 and 2013.
In French civil code now on GitHubThere's a PR for that ;) https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/pull/1/files
In French civil code now on GitHubDid you take a look at the repo? It doesn't track new laws, it tracks the entire Code Civil and considers each new law a "commit", 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 to replace "mother and father" by "parents" and "husband and wife" by "spouses".
In French civil code now on GitHubIt's the same thing 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 to have a small grammar to automatically convert the legalese patch into an actual git patch (most of the time, the sentences which wrap the editions are the sames).
In French civil code now on GitHubI need to keep in practice with my French, so I've translated the README below. Let me know if I got anything wrong.
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The French Civil Code, in Git
Introduction
Here is a little hack, the result of an afternoon of code: the Civil Code in Git.
If one considers the law as a set of texts modified by the various assemblies of the state, one can consider them as a set of text files created collaboratively.
The members of government, and the various assemblies, work in collaboration on these files, which, once voted for, are written into the Code (here the Civil Code).
But there is another category of people who, for fifty years now, have worked on text files collaboratively, and excel at it: developers. They have created extremely effective collaboration and tracking tools for working on source code. The most popular to date is Git.
Git
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not only allows you to view the source at a time T (snapshot) but above all to easily visualize the changes in the source (commits). In the analogy to the Civil Code, this permits the tracking of the changes made by a law.
Combine all of this with the Open Source philosophy, and the second part of the analogy is made: the modification of source code in an open and public fashion.
Finally, the Civil Code is a part of the source code of France. And source code belongs in 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 http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/ta/ta0120.asp):
"At article 165 of the same code, the word: 'before' is replaced by the words: 'during a republican ceremony by'."
Technical Note
Git dates are based on the Unix epoch (01/01/1970), changes before these dates are all dated 01/01/1970, with incremental seconds; the commit message gives the correct date.
LICENSE
All files are licensed under Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
French civil code now on GitHub
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