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Using git for so many things (it's a database! it's a blockchain! it's a dessert topping! It's a floor wax! [1]) does start to smell of "I have a hammer, and l

Using git for so many things (it's a database! it's a blockchain! it's a dessert topping! It's a floor wax! [1]) does start to smell of "I have a hammer, and luckily everything looks like a nail if I squint enough". But it is fun to see how folks have stretched git into so many directions, even if some of them are more useful than others. [1] SNL, 1976: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shimmer-floor-wax/n8625 https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shimmer-floor-... (may not work in all regions, sorry) (edited link)

danielvaughn 4y ago
I don't see it that way - version control in general turns out to be highly applicable in many areas far beyond source code. I think it's still under-utilized.
- pknopf 4y ago
  Medical industry, design history files, etc.
- partdavid 4y ago
  Yes, it's extremely common to see applications which need a datastore to end up needing lots of version control type features later on, which end up implemented ad-hoc over a general database.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
Git is an abstraction over file trees (or even more generally just chunks of data), and it turns out a ton of problems in software are easily modeled and dealt with as files in a tree.
- bastawhiz 4y ago
  Lots of problems in software are easily modeled as ordered lists, but that doesn't mean linked lists are the right tool for accomplishing that.