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Dolt is Git for Data: a SQL database that you can fork, clone, branch, merge

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752 points crazypython | 3 comments | 06 Mar 21 21:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.597s | source
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laurent92 ◴[06 Mar 21 22:16 UTC] No.26371018[source]▶
Wordpress would have benefited from this.

What a lot of webmasters want is, test the site locally, then merge it back. A lot of people turned to Jekyll or Hugo for the very reason that it can be checked into git, and git is reliable. A static website can’t get hacked, whereas anyone who has been burnt with Wordpress security fail knows they’d prefer a static site.

And even more: People would like to pass the new website from the designer to the customer to managers — Wordpress might have not needed to develop their approval workflows (permission schemes, draft/preview/publish) if they had had a forkable database.

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1. kenniskrag ◴[06 Mar 21 23:33 UTC] No.26371545[source]▶
they have a theme preview now. :)
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2. jimsmart ◴[07 Mar 21 02:24 UTC] No.26372561[source]▶
The parent post here is speaking to the content stored in the database, not the templates on the filesystem. Dolt enables one to merge, push and pull data, just as one would with files and git.
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3. 2malaq ◴[07 Mar 21 07:27 UTC] No.26373974[source]▶
I read it as sarcasm.