The OP points to a site called DoltHub.com, so it’s not like they don’t have ambitions to commercialize as another “GitHub for data”.

Sure, but the existence of GitHub has only helped Git grow, not hurt it.

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!)

Dat is more about distribution (décentralized, distributed, P2P) but it's not possible to make queries.

Yes, the project used to associate itself as a git for data, but I guess not in the sense of a db.

That project looks like a command-line p2p file sharing system. There doesn't appear to be any branching. It also doesn't appear to be a database (like with a schema), but simply raw files being passed around. There's no data types or queries.

I'm not sure why you bring it up now. They don't call it "git for data" anywhere that I see, and it's missing 2 of the 3 core features that I think a "git for data" would need to have.

Like I said, this project is old. I brought it up in the context of older projects, independent of whether they succeeded pivoted, etc. If you did some research you would have made this connection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX7qSwz3SCk (2013) - 'Introducing Dat: If Git Were Designed For Big Data' Talk by the founder.

My point is they pivoted and so maybe this idea won't work, or this was too early.

EDIT: Looking back on _your_ post, I mentioned it because you specifically said "It's a program, and it appears to be an open-source one you can download and use today." And that is what 'dat' is/was. I thought I would mention it.

Can it remove a file from the repo history? It's a GDPR feature that makes git hard to use for data.