It was most likely picked as an analogy to "git".

This is correct. Specifically, to pay homage to git and how Linus named it.

Dolt and git are closer to synonymous rather than analogous.

Agreed. I couldn't immediately see if it was "DOLT" or "do it", as in "just do it". It's the former.

Reminds me of this user testing story from the early Macintosh days: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt

I was going back and forth between the two until seeing doLt in terminal font.

This ambiguity in sans serif fonts has actually been pretty annoying. Especially since GitHub doesn't let you choose your font on readmes and stuff.

You can use <pre>...</pre> for monospace font.

just lowercase it

Already I would not use this project because of its name. I’m not offended by it, but I know others will be, and it will only be a matter of time before we have to replace it with something else. So why bother in the first place?

I know the name is not DOLT but it is close enough to cause offense. Imagine the N-word with one typo. Would it still be offensive? Probably to some.

> but I know others will be, and it will only be a matter of time before we have to replace it with something else

Or we can just not give in to such insanity. That's always an option, and would help prevent things from getting increasingly worse as we cede ground to claims that increasingly get further and further away from the realm of what's reasonable.

It’s not your choice when you’re an employee of a woke company (unless you want to quit) Don’t you know that by now?

The name is DOLT with an L

Do you know what "git" means?

It’s not though it is dolt, meaning a stupid person, like git (stupid simple version control.)

Oh wow, that's awful! I thought this was just an innocent mistake.