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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

https://docs.dolthub.com/other/faq#why-is-it-called-dolt-are...

hmm, perhaps this is the underpinnings of why I stopped using dolt (trying to be too clever makes things harder in the long run)

another winner from the school of naming that brought us "The GIMP", then

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