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Using Github for web development that uses a database. #22927
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HI, I am doing research into how GitHub will work with our websites. Our websites use a database to store most of its content like text and links to images etc. My question is, how will Github work with this? Is there a way to also have version control of the databases? Or is there a 3rd party plugin/program which I need to use beside Github? I hope my question is clear enough. Kind regards, Robbert |
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Hello @robbert-cognito, Welcome to the GitHub community forums. :slight_smile: GitHub is version control for files mostly — in terms of version control for databases, you could store database schema changes but the actual contents of the database is probably best backed up separately on a dedicated file service since it’ll be a hefty filesize that GitHub won’t necessarily cope well with. That said, you can store and version large files on GitHub using Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com/ To learn more about how GitHub works, I recommend reading the guides available at https://guides.github.com/ If there’s anything else I can help you with, let me know; so happy to help further! Kindest regards, |
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Awesome! I love your github support… Keep up the good work. |
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Hello @robbert-cognito,
Welcome to the GitHub community forums. :slight_smile:
GitHub is version control for files mostly — in terms of version control for databases, you could store database schema changes but the actual contents of the database is probably best backed up separately on a dedicated file service since it’ll be a hefty filesize that GitHub won’t necessarily cope well with.
That said, you can store and version large files on GitHub using Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com/
To learn more about how GitHub works, I recommend reading the guides available at https://guides.github.com/
If there’s anything else I can help you with, let me know; so happy to help fu…