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I am wondering can't we use git as database?

It is a database.

Not a relational database, though. But the Tree objects (1) make a hierarchical database.

(1) http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_object_model.html

It will be tough to use as a useful database for most applications without cursors. I'm also not certain that its directories are ordered. If they are, I'm even more doubtful that you can specify a custom ordering.

It's a transcriptional database :)

http://wingolog.org/archives/2008/04/12/git-a-transcriptiona...

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