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But why does it have to look like SQL (and not like xpath or jquery)?

Not many people enjoy writing SQL statements on the command line. It's verbose, the order of things is arbitrary...

I would assume that the whole point of the project is to be able to do SQLish queries on a git repo, and that it was written by and for people who are familiar with SQL and have a preference for it over other query languages. And they probably do enjoy writing SQL statements on the command line, however uncommon that may or may not be.

Seems to be very narrow group. How is this relevant to HN? Flagged the story.

You flagged the story because you don't like SQL on the CLI? Come on. Whether or not you enjoy writing SQL on the CLI, SQL is a fine language for querying data, and is probably more common than xpath. JQuery seems like a strange choice too.

I just fail to praise the attitude. "Let's faithfully reproduce the looks of 30 y.o. technology, pseudographic tables included, with make-believe over git".

Well, if you feel so strongly about it, why not build your own tool to support the "preferred" query language?

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