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I really like the idea in theory, but seeing it in practice I feel the whole thing is too concerned with being a wrapper around git handling for their dataset files. I would much rather see diffs based around the records themselves, and not so much the structure of the data.

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While Git is referenced as an inspiration, the implementation of Noms does not use Git. Noms performs diffs on the data - as records or whatever other structure you used in importing your data. CSV is but one example of a way to import data into Noms, but since so much data is available in that format it is an easy one to reference that most people know. Noms can also import JSON, XML and many other data types if you are willing to write JS or Go code (more to come). Thanks for taking a look at Noms!

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