A simple post-checkout script that will backup your Rails dev database when you switch working branches.
Create a directory where backups will be store $ mkdir ~/projects/backup Define environment variable GITBACKUP_PATH (if it's not defined, it will create and use the path ~/<your project>/../backups). $ export GITBACKUP_PATH = ~/projects/backups Copy the post-commit script into your github project's .git/hooks path and make it executable $ cp post-checkout ~/projects/myproject/.git/hooks $ chmod 755 ~/projects/myproject/.git/hooks/post-checkout Now, when you switch branches during development, the post-checkout will run and mysqldump your database to the backup path in the following format: ~/projects/backups/<dev_database_name>/2010-11-20_17:00_<branch>.mysql
When run you git checkout, the post-checkout script will:
- if prev and new branch are the same, do nothing. - if either branch is 'no branch', do nothing. - if any files in /db/migrate/* are changed (modified, added, deleted) between the previous and new branch, it will save database to previous branch name, and restore back the last database of the new branch name. - if any files in /db/migrate/* are added or changed between the previous and new branch, it will also run a rake db:migrate