Using Git to track mysql schema - some questions
#!/bin/sh
   mysqldump -u DBUSER -pDBPASSWORD  DATABASE --no-data=true> SQLVersionControl/vc.sql
   git add SQLVersionControl/vc.sql
   exit 0

#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -u DBUSER -pDBPASSWORD  DATABASE --no-data=true> SQLVersionControl/vc.sql
git add SQLVersionControl/vc.sql
exit 0

#!/bin/bash -e
# -e means exit if any command fails
DBHOST=dbhost.yourdomain.com
DBUSER=dbuser
DBPASS=dbpass # do this in a more secure fashion
DBNAME=dbname
GITREPO=/path/to/git/repo
cd $GITREPO
mysqldump -h $DBHOST -u $DBUSER -p$DBPASS -d $DBNAME > $GITREPO/schema.sql # the -d flag means "no data"
git add schema.sql
git commit -m "$DBNAME schema version $(`date`)"
git push # assuming you have a remote to push to

#!/bin/sh

mysqldump -u DBUSER -pDBPASSWORD  DATABASE --no-data=true> SQLVersionControl/vc.sql

git add SQLVersionControl/vc.sql

exit 0

$> mkdir myschema && cd myschema
$> git init
$> echo "CREATE TABLE ..." > schema.sql
$> git add schema.sql
$> git commit -m "Initial import"

#!/bin/bash

# exit upon error
set -e
# another way to set "exit upon error", for readability
set -o errexit

mysqldump -umyuser -pmypassword dbase1 --no-data=true > dbase1.sql

# Uncomment following line to dump all data with schema,
# useful when used in tandem for the post-checkout hook below.
# WARNING: can greatly expand your git repo when employing for
# large databases, so carefully evaluate before employing this method.
# mysqldump -umyuser -pmypassword dbase1 > dbase1.sql

git add dbase1.sql

#!/bin/bash
# mysqldump (above) is presumably run without '--no-data=true' parameter.
set -e
mysql -umyuser -pmypassword dbase1 < dbase1.sql

root@node1 Dec 12 22:35:14 /var/www# mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.54, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.2
root@node1 Dec 12 22:35:19 /var/www# git --version
git version 1.7.4.1
root@node1 Dec 12 22:35:22 /var/www# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 11.04
Release:        11.04
Codename:       natty
root@node1 Dec 12 22:35:28 /var/www#

git rebase --onto master~8 master~7