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

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115 points graderjs | 1 comments | 06 Nov 20 03:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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andreareina ◴[06 Nov 20 05:01 UTC] No.25005050[source]▶
Could use an example of the database file and diffs.

I have vague recollections of a tool that was similarly supposed to make JSON files diffable. IIRC it procedurally built up the object, so {"foo": {"bar": "baz", "quux": [1, 2, 3]}} would be:

    foo = {}
    foo.bar = "baz"
    foo.baz = []
    foo.baz[0] = 1
    ...
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PowerfulWizard ◴[06 Nov 20 05:17 UTC] No.25005118[source]▶
This is called gron, I prefer it for reading JSON with a lot of nesting.

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

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1. divbzero ◴[06 Nov 20 06:39 UTC] No.25005506[source]▶
This is really cool. Gives you much of what jq does without having to remember jq syntax.