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You can use something like forestry: https://forestry.io or any of the few alternatives for managing content for your static generator site.

Or have a look at https://frontaid.io/ if you want to store your content in a JSON file in your own Git repository.

Is there something like Forestry (CMS with Git as datastore) but self-hosted and/or open-source?

Yes, NetlifyCMS.