"This repository contains the complete United States Code. Its purpose
is to publish the federal code in a way that makes it easy for
interested individuals to access both its content and its changes over
time.
Another purpose for this repository is to explore some ideas around
how to better facilitate the legislative process. Legislation comes
in the form of bills which are essentially patches to the existing
legal code. Many different versions of a patch may float around to be
debated, discussed, amended, etc., before a final version is applied
to the "trunk". The process is extremely similar to how developers
manage software changes, particularly in the open source world."
