United States Code (federal laws) in Git

Summary

🇺🇸 United States Code as a Git Repository The entire United States Code — every title, chapter, and section — stored as Markdown in a Git repository. Each commit represents a point-in-time snapshot of federal law, with git diff revealing exactly what changed between enactments. Laws change. Understanding what changed and when has historically required navigating dense legal databases or reading legislative summaries written by someone else. Git solves this naturally: git log — see the history of federal law from 2013 to present git diff — see exactly what text changed between any two points in time git blame — trace when a specific provision was added Tags — jump to a specific Congress or year uscode/ ├── title-01-general-provisions/ │ ├── _title.md # Title metadata │ ├── chapter-001-rules-of-construction.md │ ├── chapter-002-acts-and-resolutions-...md │ └── ... ├── title-02-the-congress/ ├── title-03-the-president/ ├── ... └── title-54-national-park-service-and-related-programs/ 53 titles of the United States Code ~2,950 chapter-level Markdown files ~60,400 sections with full statutory text 13 commits spanning 2013–2025 (one per OLRC release point) Each Markdown file includes YAML frontmatter with metadata (title number, chapter, heading, section count, source URL) and the full statutory text with cross-references, statutory notes, and amendment histories. Every commit corresponds to an Office of the Law Revision Counsel (OLRC) release point — an official snapshot of the US Code as amended through a specific Public Law. Tag Public Law Year Description annual/2013 113-21 2013 Earliest available OLRC snapshot congress/113 113-296 2014 End of 113th Congress annual/2015 114-38 2015 congress/114 114-329 2017 End of 114th Congress annual/2017 115-51 2017 congress/115 115-442 2019 End of 115th Congress annual/2019 116-91 2019 congress/116 116-344 2021 End of 116th Congress annual/2021 117-81 2021 annual/2022 117-262 2022 congress/117 117-262 2022 End of 117th Congress ann...