I have a project in development that I’m working on and I frequently switch between two computers. I am including my sqlite file in git and so far it’s been fine but I’ve heard in the past that git doesn’t do well with binary? Has anyone actually had issues doing this?
I decided to perform a dump just in case so i dont have to start from scratch if something does go wrong.
While it will “work” I honestly wouldn’t recommend it.
Your
.gitdirectory is potentially going to get stupidly large (possibly large enough that some git service providers will turn you away - individual file size limits as low as 100MB are common), and one day you’re likely to face a merge conflict that’s really difficult to fix.Use something else to sync your database or even better just don’t sync them at all, and use migrations to keep two databases up to date. The latter is what most people do.
If “something does go wrong” though, you should be able to just restore the sqlite database from a backup… you do have backups right? RIGHT? Git is not a backup.
The sqlite file in question is just for initial development testing, it’s loss would be but a minor annoyance. Since i first posted this question, I’ve removed the binary file from git tracking anyways and just keep a plain text dump file. This is for convenience while working between two computers, not actual data backup.