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by thu 447 days ago
I maintain a web site where I re-render to HTML a scrapped version of the (consolidated version of) the Official Belgian Journal[0].

One of the nice thing about having an underlying structured representation of those texts is that I can also render them to e.g. Markdown[1].

I've experimented about generating the Markdown files corresponding to multiple versions (archives) of a given text and committing them to the same Git repository to be able to see diffs or blames[2].

I would like to assign the proper dates to each commit, but given there are texts in e.g. 1791, it's not possible.

0: https://refli.be/fr/lex 1: https://github.com/hypered/iterata-md 2: https://github.com/hypered/iterata-archive