Strapi + Dolt for a Git like experience

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I’m backing Strapi with the Dolt database, which has git like semantics on top of a MySQL server. What I’d like to do is expose this as a dropdown for the current user. So they can switch branches when adding / editing content.

There are a few ways they support using a single server for all users, branches, commits, and dirty workspaces:

I’m wonder if there is any way to implement the UI → API → Dolt parameterization, even if it might require a small patch to the strapi core?

The one I thought might be least effort

  • if a call to the API has a DB transaction wrapping the e2e call
  • modify the snippet that starts the transaction to inject a USE
USE `mydb/feature-branch`
START TRANSACTION ...

Maybe that happens below Strapi code…

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Well if you can switch it somehow inside strapi then you can make a ui for this as a plugin…

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right, my gap is more on the “switch it somehow inside strapi”

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You should look how to do that via knex

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Then there are ways