One of the other design goals of Dat is to support continually-divergent forking, which they perceive as being useful for communities of analysts processing com

One of the other design goals of Dat is to support continually-divergent forking, which they perceive as being useful for communities of analysts processing common datasets but to ultimately different ends. Of course, you never have to merge forks in git, but in it's current form they (dat devs) say that it's not really ideal.