This is a longer description about your blog. 2025-05-10T00:00:00Z https://vincecima.com/ Vince Cima 2025-05-10T00:00:00Z https://vincecima.com/posts/links/2025/2025-05-10-copying-sqlite-databases/ <p>The approach described in Alex's article also opens up another possibility, <em>storing</em> your application's state (contained in the SQLite database) as plain text in a git repo. In fact, this is the approach I take with my <a href="https://github.com/vincecima/homebrew-new-bot">Homebrew packages bot</a>. Instead of using <code>sqlite3</code>, I use Simon Willison’s <code>sqlite_utils</code> package to do the <a href="https://github.com/vincecima/homebrew-new-bot/blob/b97ad2684e226193349acaef278b553d1717bfd3/src/homebrew_new_bot/__init__.py#L69-L74">dump</a> and <a href="https://github.com/vincecima/homebrew-new-bot/blob/b97ad2684e226193349acaef278b553d1717bfd3/src/homebrew_new_bot/__init__.py#L79-L84">restore</a> directly from the bot's Python code.</p>