I really wish lawmakers would split up their bills into logical commits and PRs. The current packaging system makes it harder for the American people (and the lawmakers themselves!) to conduct meaningful reviews.
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It's not impossible, at all. It's how it's supposed to work. It's just not politically opportunistic. Giant bills are often designed specifically to limit review. And mashing unrelated things into the same bill is the political equivalent of hiding your dog's medicine in a treat.
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Somebody did this for part of the french law: https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil … Hasn't been updated since 2015 but it's interesting :)
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That's a different problem, also worth solving, preferably with http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/ … formatting for optimal diffs. :) But e.g. the US tax bill would still be one giant patch commit, rather than broken up into multiple patches per issue “fixed”.
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Using a repo to track the law as-is is something we can do even now... but as
@AmeliasBrain points out, small, logical commits (bills) are unlikely to happen because politicians want to slip things through that wouldn't be approved were they subject to individual scrutiny. :(
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check out http://legislation.gov.uk , it's as close as we've got so far.
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