Note: This post stirred up some interesting discussions on HackerNews and Lobste.rs. SQLite stores data in binary. If you run cat mydb.sqlite, you'll see a bunch of gibberish that doesn't resemble structured data at all. If you want to track changes and updates to a database using Git, you won't be able to see full diffs by default. You'll see that the file has changed, but not what changed exactl