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Dolt is Git for data

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358 points timsehn | 1 comments | 30 Mar 20 20:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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peteforde ◴[31 Mar 20 03:02 UTC] No.22734564[source]▶
Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774

I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn't find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.

I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I'm pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4

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ken ◴[31 Mar 20 04:53 UTC] No.22735030[source]▶
That's GitHub for data. It's a service, and they still haven't launched anything yet.

This is Git for data. It's a program, and it appears to be an open-source one you can download and use today.

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enos_feedler ◴[31 Mar 20 05:07 UTC] No.22735068[source]▶
There is actually an old git for data project too:

https://github.com/datproject/dat

It's ~5 years old and I really wanted it to be huge. Hoping this new project is a success. Especially since I notice I went to high school with one of the founders of Dolt (Hey Tim!)

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1. visarga ◴[31 Mar 20 05:42 UTC] No.22735185{3}[source]▶
Can it remove a file from the repo history? It's a GDPR feature that makes git hard to use for data.