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DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt, a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories. https://www.dolthub.com
# Why Dolt?
# Why name a tool Dolt?
Why Dolt? To pay homage to Git! [Linus Torvalds famously said he names his products after himself](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#Naming), Linux and Git. Git is British slang for idiot. We needed a word that meant idiot that started with 'D' for data that was short enough to type on the command line. Hence, Dolt.