nit, Dolt is more a relational database with some git addons, i.e. it started from SQL to make it better, rather than starting from git and adding SQL

Yeah, I meant the name is a play on 'git'.

How so? They only share a final letter in common

hmm, perhaps this is the underpinnings of why I stopped using dolt (trying to be too clever makes things harder in the long run)

another winner from the school of naming that brought us "The GIMP", then