Your points are valid, especially considering that this page is explaining the benefits (for the author) of using SQLite as a generic application file format; h

Your points are valid, especially considering that this page is explaining the benefits (for the author) of using SQLite as a generic application file format; however we're only talking about git here, and my usage of git is limited to "git some-command", sometimes "git some-command | grep foobar", and most of the time I'm in a GUI anyway. I'm not grepping the git objects directly, so whether I use a git subcommand or a sql subcommand won't make any difference to me. The real advantages of using sql subcommands for me are: - I could probably plug that into something else with more ease than something that is git-specific - I have more flexibility for querying out of the box, without learning the specifics of each subcommand. The full SQL language is there at my disposal for outputting exactly what I need