Databases make good databases, again
Here is Andrew Nesbitt on the siren song of using git as a database.
I recently wrote about the pitfalls of using as databases things that are not databases. This is a whole class of examples I didn't mention in that post and had not recently thought about.
Don't miss the list of reasons why filesystems make bad databases; as Nesbitt puts it, "the underlying issue is that git inherits filesystem limitations, and filesystems make terrible databases." Many of those reasons were unfamiliar to me.