Tricoteuses – French law under Git

[Translation]

The DILA 's Légifrance website has for several years offered convenient access to all French legal texts and has become a daily work tool for a large number of citizens, whether lawyers or not. Although it allows access to the different versions of the texts, it is not optimal for use cases where the evolution of these texts over time constitutes the main focus of study.

The use of a specialized version control tool, such as git, in this perspective has long been identified as a promising avenue and several demonstrators had emerged around 2014, both in France , Germany and other countries. The articles published at the time (on NextINpact or Numérama , for example) clearly present the potential advantages of such an approach.

These projects have unfortunately since been abandoned, which motivated the launch of this one, which is based not on an aspiration of the Légifrance website, but on the provision of legal texts in the form of open data, recovered by the tricoteuses-legifrance project .

In a virtuous circle dynamic, anomalies in the data encountered during the development of this project are systematically reported to the DILA teams: the exchanges can be followed in the repository tickets .