Git hooks to automate database snapshots using Stellar

post-checkout

#!/bin/sh
# This is to automate the process of db snapshots with
# https://github.com/fastmonkeys/stellar

# read current git branch name
BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD )

if stellar list | grep $BRANCH; then
  # checkout the existing db snapshot
  stellar restore $BRANCH
else
  # create a new snapshot from master
  echo New db snapshot from master
  stellar restore master
  stellar snapshot $BRANCH
fi

pre-checkout

#!/bin/sh
# This is to automate the process of db snapshots with
# https://github.com/fastmonkeys/stellar

# read current git branch name
BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD )

if stellar list | grep $BRANCH; then
  # update the existing snapshot
  stellar replace $BRANCH
else
  echo NOT FOUND: $BRANCH
fi

These are a couple of git hooks that help automate the switching of databases in development using Stellar.

So, whenever you switch to a branch using git checkout my-branch you will have created (or restored) a database snapshot with stellar snapshot $BRANCH.