The dbvc commandline tool allows you to manage your database schema updates in your version control (git) repository.

DBVC looks for the dbvc.json configuration file.

{
  "db": {
    "driver": "mysql",
    "host": "localhost",
    "username": "root",
    "password": "open",
    "dbname": "foobar"
  },
  "datadir": "dev",
  "vcs": "none"
}

If datadir is omitted, it defaults to "dev". If vcs is omitted, the vcs is automatically determined.

• mysql

You may issue a feature request to support other DBMSs.

• git
• none

You may issue a feature request to support other VCSs.

When using git, the correct order of the updates is automatically found by examining the git log.

When selecting vcs 'none', updates are run in natural order. It's up to you to prefix the update files with (for instance) a date, to make sure that run in the correct order

Show a list of commands

dbvc help

Show help on a specific command

dbvc help init

Initialise DBVC for an existing database.

dbvc init

Create a database dump. This is used to create the DB on a new environment.

mysqldump foobar > dev/schema.php

Create the DB using the schema.

dbvc create

Add an update file. These are used to update the DB on other environments.

echo 'ALTER TABLE `foo` ADD COLUMN `status` BOOL DEFAULT 1;' > dev/updates/add-status-to-foo.sql

Mark an update as already run.

dbvc mark add-status-to-foo

Show a list of updates that need to be run.

dbvc status

Show all updates with their status.

dbvc status --all

Update the database.

dbvc update