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Show HN: Sir – Git-diff-able JSON database on yer filesystem

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115 points graderjs | 2 comments | 06 Nov 20 03:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.437s | source
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sillysaurusx ◴[06 Nov 20 04:17 UTC] No.25004844[source]▶
Amusingly, this is almost identical to how HN’s database works. Or worked.

It wasn’t json, but it probably could’ve been.

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1. dheera ◴[06 Nov 20 06:17 UTC] No.25005392[source]▶
I'd go for YAML instead of JSON, or "JSON with trailing commas", or else the diffs become messy.
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2. jeswin ◴[06 Nov 20 06:26 UTC] No.25005450[source]▶
YAMLs biggest advantage over JSON: records can be appended (at the end of an existing file). Which you can't do with JSON objects, arrays etc because of the closing bracket at the end.