Not scale, no, but git also tends to work pretty well for certain data projects; given git is just a VCS it can track any kind of file (to varying degrees of us

Not scale, no, but git also tends to work pretty well for certain data projects; given git is just a VCS it can track any kind of file (to varying degrees of usefulness - git really doesn't like files that massively reorder themselves when the editor saves them like MSWord or certain FXML generators, it completely mucks up the diffs). For hobby projects, I've absolutely committed an SQLITE database in the past to serve as an HTTP cache; I was relying on an external API with some pretty hefty usage limits but at the same time was also certain that the data I was requesting from that API would never change, so I could just keep all responses around and reuse them forever (and it was easier to cache the response than to write a bespoke serialization format for converting them). Yeah, it's technically a build artifact (because it's not code) but it's better than getting 429 errors on every new dev machine for an hour + it was just hobbyist code, nothing meant for professional use.