Version control of database schema (SQL DDLs in plain text file)

Pavel Murnikov

1.  Exported a database schema (only DDL) into to text file (.SQL)

2. initial Source tree commit. 

3. some minor schema changes 

4. exported database schema again

5. *** SourceTree complains "No changes in this file have been detected, or it is a binary file" 

I checked the gitignore_global.txt, it doesn't mention *.sql

Any suggestions what I an doing wrong ?

 

TIA

Pavel

Ana Retamal

Hi Pavel! The extension alone isn't enough for Git to see if it's a text file, and the content might not include enough ascii character to guess it is text file either.

Typically, that happens because the file is being saved as something other than UTF-8. If it's been encoded in UCS-4, UTF-16, or UTF-32 it contains embedded NUL characters when using ASCII characters (and this is not text in the eyes of Git).

With the .gitattributes file you can explicitly specify that a .sql should be a text, not a binary. Just add a .gitattributes to your repository root folder and set the diff attribute to the paths or files. 

For more information you can read Git attributes and Customizing Git-Attributes.

Lastly, there's also a bug in our tracking system, you can follow it at SRCTREEWIN-5485.

Hope that helps!

Ana