[rtpg]

kind of curious as to how this got generated in the first place

[seszett]

The full civil code text applicable for every date since at least 1817 is available at Legifrance.gouv.fr[1] so I suppose he just wrote a parser to transform each of these pages into plaintext, another one to get a list of all amendments, and commited each different version.

[1]http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do?cidTexte=LEGITEX...

[mackwic]

Same here. Diffs published from the Journal Officiel aren't so easy to parse. I am afraid it could be manually generated, which is a dead end.

[Majestic121]

The author mention he did it in an afternoon of code, so it's definitely not manually generated : "Voici un petit hack, résultat d'une après-midi de code"

I do agree that the technical details would be interesting.

[mackwic]

I don't think it's possible to generate a general parser for the Journal Officiel in an afternoon.

It would make the author a _very_ efficient worker.

[masklinn]

It's probably possible to do that for a crawler of http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr though.

[simlevesque]

He said in another comment that it's not how he did it.

[markvdb]

Me too.

Unfortunately, the author was utterly careless about spelling. That really makes it feel like a quick hack.

[scrollaway]

The author specifically flags it as a quick hack:

> Voici un petit hack, résultat d'une après-midi de code : le code civil sous Git.

"Here is a quick hack, the result of an afternoon of coding: the civil code under Git."