This is what I do too. The mysqldump command is tweaked to use individual INSERT clauses as opposed to one bulk one, so the diff hunks are smaller. You can al

This is what I do too. The mysqldump command is tweaked to use individual INSERT clauses as opposed to one bulk one, so the diff hunks are smaller. You can also sed and remove the mysqldump timestamp, so there will be no commits if there are no database changes, saving the git repo space.