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@nyanotech I wonder how well databases fare in git

@nyanotech @randomgeek What do you favor about #git other than already having repo(s) on the network that would make it suitable for syncing data that isn’t a forever stream of snapshotted hierarchical source code?

Because I’m pretty sure that git is a mix of under- and overkill the more your data differs from that structure.

@mjgardner @randomgeek a bunch of these things already implement a commit log, either for doing merges, or for exposing history to the user

@nyanotech @randomgeek A bunch of what things? What has unsatisfactory syncing to you?

To me, “everything should use git to sync because it has a commit log” sounds like “every car should be a Subaru Ascent because it has 19 cup holders.”

It ignores what git is built for and how its model isn’t great for anything more structured than source code text.

There *are* systems like Apple Core Data or Microsoft Entity Framework that generalize data persistence and sync.

@mjgardner @nyanotech @randomgeek > It ignores what git is built for and how its model isn’t great for anything more structured than source code text.

I think this is a key reason why us #markdown / #PlainText notes wonks go so hard on it. We want our notes to be able to live in git.

@taylorhadden @mjgardner @nyanotech AS A dev-type person, I WANT plain text notes and git-like versioning SO THAT I can understand how they work using my existing mental models and process them with my existing tools.

anyways

I could absolutely not explain the technical merits, but #SiYuanNote uses dejavu to handle synchronization and history. Lists "Git-like version control" as a feature. It's neat. But it's way easier for me to understand #Tangent + a Git repo that I manage myself because I already know Markdown and version control.

@taylorhadden @mjgardner @nyanotech well actually Fossil not Git but that's because I'm always in pursuit of that endorphin rush of shiny new toy.

@taylorhadden @nyanotech But to @mjgardner 's point Git is not great with binary files like images, so Git specifically is not a 100% solution for synchronization and versioning. It perfectly covers my notes, where I dump and ignore an illustrative pic, but way too cumbersome for the needs of a design shop always editing and tweaking pics.

But as a mental model it's great.

@randomgeek @nyanotech @mjgardner It’s okay for images that never change!

@nyanotech likewise but IMAP