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skybrian
103 days ago
The database actually is named "Dolt." It's their own take on "git."
https://www.dolthub.com/
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verdverm
103 days ago
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
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skybrian
102 days ago
Yeah, I meant the
name
is a play on 'git'.
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verdverm
102 days ago
How so? They only share a final letter in common
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zachmu
102 days ago
https://docs.dolthub.com/other/faq#why-is-it-called-dolt-are...
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verdverm
102 days ago
hmm, perhaps this is the underpinnings of why I stopped using dolt (trying to be too clever makes things harder in the long run)
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egypturnash
102 days ago
another winner from the school of naming that brought us "The GIMP", then
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