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by egypturnash 104 days ago
"DoIt" looks like "Dolt" in all too many fonts.
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I legitametly thought it was Dolt until you pointed it out
The database actually is named "Dolt." It's their own take on "git."

https://www.dolthub.com/

nit, Dolt is more a relational database with some git addons, i.e. it started from SQL to make it better, rather than starting from git and adding SQL
Yeah, I meant the name is a play on 'git'.
How so? They only share a final letter in common
another winner from the school of naming that brought us "The GIMP", then
It is DOLT, you were right.
Wait it’s not Dolt? I assumed it was named in the same vein as “Git” when I read it
lol it's DOLT, not DoIt.

Yegge's Medium uses a serif font so you can tell, but in many faces you can't.

(We still get this comment constantly and it's very unfortunate)

maybe you should consider a name change then
I literally thought it was "Dolt" until I read your comment.