Synopsis

  sqitch [options] checkout [<database>] <branch>

Description

Checkout another branch in your project's VCS (such as git <http://git-scm.org/>), while performing the necessary database changes to update your database for the new branch.

More specifically, the "checkout" command compares the plan in the current branch to that in the branch to check out, identifies the last common changes between them, reverts to that change as if "sqitch revert" was called (unless there have been no changes deployed since that change), checks out the new branch, and then deploys all changes as if "sqitch deploy" had been called.

If the VCS is already on the specified branch, nothing will be done.

The "<database>" parameter specifies the database to which to connect, and may also be specified as the "--target" option. It can be target name, a URI, an engine name, or plan file path.

Options

"-t"

"--target"

The target database to which to connect. This option can be either a URI or the name of a target in the configuration.

"--mode"

Specify the reversion mode to use in case of failure. Possible values are:

"all"

In the event of failure, revert all deployed changes, back to the point at which deployment started. This is the default.

"tag"

In the event of failure, revert all deployed changes to the last successfully-applied tag. If no tags were applied during this deployment, all changes will be reverted to the point at which deployment began.

"change"

In the event of failure, no changes will be reverted. This is on the assumption that a change is atomic, and thus may may be deployed again.

"--verify"

Verify each change by running its verify script, if there is one. If a verify test fails, the deploy will be considered to have failed and the appropriate reversion will be carried out, depending on the value of "--mode".

"--no-verify"

Don't verify each change. This is the default.

"-s"

"--set"

Set a variable name and value for use by the database engine client, if it supports variables. The format must be "name=value", e.g., "--set defuser='Homer Simpson'". Overrides any values loaded from the "deploy.variables" or "revert.variables" configurations.

"-d"

"--set-deploy"

Set a variable name and value for use by the database engine client when deploying, if it supports variables. The format must be "name=value", e.g., "--set defuser='Homer Simpson'". Overrides any values from "--set" or loaded from the "deploy.variables" configuration.

"-r"

"--set-revert"

Sets a variable name to be used by the database engine client during when reverting, if it supports variables. The format must be "name=value", e.g., "--set defuser='Homer Simpson'". Overrides any values from "--set" or loaded from the "deploy.variables" and "revert.variables" configurations.

"--log-only"

Log the changes as if they were deployed, but without actually running the deploy scripts. Useful for an existing database that is being converted to Sqitch, and you need to log changes as deployed because they have been deployed by other means in the past.

"-y"

Disable the prompt that normally asks whether or not to execute the revert.

Configuration Variables

"[deploy.variables]"

"[revert.variables]"

A section defining database client variables. The "deploy.variables" configuration is read from the "deploy" command configuration, on the assumption that the values will generally be the same. If they're not, use "revert.variables" to override "deploy.variables".

These variables are useful if your database engine supports variables in scripts, such as PostgreSQL's "psql" variables <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-INTERPOLATION>, Vertica's "vsql" variables <http://my.vertica.com/docs/7.1.x/HTML/index.htm#Authoring/ConnectingToHPVertica/vsql/Variables.htm>, and SQL*Plus's "DEFINE" variables <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14357/ch12017.htm>.

"checkout.verify"

"deploy.verify"

Boolean indicating whether or not to verify each change after deploying it.

"checkout.mode"

"deploy.mode"

Deploy mode. The supported values are the same as for the "--mode" option.

"[checkout.no_prompt]"

"[revert.no_prompt]"

A boolean value indicating whether or not to disable the prompt before executing the revert. The "checkout.no_prompt" variable takes precedence over "revert.no_prompt", and both may of course be overridden by "-y".

"[checkout.prompt_accept]"

"[revert.prompt_accept]"

A boolean value indicating whether default reply to the prompt before executing the revert should be ``yes'' or ``no''. The "checkout.prompt_accept" variable takes precedence over "revert.prompt_accept", and both default to true, meaning to accept the revert.

Sqitch

Part of the sqitch suite.