Tables global to all branches Excluded from Change Tracking

[MrSEKIRO]

Is there a way to exclude some tables from versioning so when adding data into those tables, they should be same on all branches?

There is some dolt_ignore system table, but it just could ignore that table on one branch. What is needed is some kind of .gitignore like in git which will apply on all branches.

[timsehn]

When building dolt_ignore we discussed this.

Basically, you want a dolt_global or maybe dolt_domain set of tables. A set of tables that is not versioned but global to all branches.

A way to work around this now would be to put the tables in a separate database. You could then join across databases and keep those un-versioned.

Another way to work around this is reference the unversioned tables on say the main branch by referring to them by their branch spec. ie select * from <db>.<branch>.<t>.

Yet another way to work around it is to copy the tables when you create a branch but this will cost storage and if the tables change, the change will not be reflected in the copied tables.