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baby on Oct 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping ...

git is not suited to search through the different fields that have changed (it's content agnostic). A database allows you to plot and search efficiently.

gitgud on Oct 10, 2020 [–]

Well you could say folders are like "tables" and files are like "fields" within those tables...

The main difference between git and a traditional DB is querying and relationships between fields

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