Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git

Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git

A neat trick from Garrit Franke that I hadn't seen before: you can teach "git diff" how to display human readable versions of the differences between binary files with a specific extension using the following:

git config diff.sqlite3.binary true
git config diff.sqlite3.textconv "echo .dump | sqlite3"

That way you can store binary files in your repo but still get back SQL diffs to compare them.

I still worry about the efficiency of storing binary …

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