I’m not sure if you guys have come across VersionPress yet, but it’s improving more and more over time, and could be the answer for merging databases between dev, staging, live etc rather than the straight overwrite.
Check our their latest post; we’re pretty excited to say the least, as (somehow) combined with Trellis, it could be a pretty slick workflow:
Just wanted to say that although I’m currently not a user of Roots, I have been watching it from the outside and am generally a big fan of everything that tries to improve the WP dev ecosystem. VP is very young at the moment but when it matures a bit it would be nice to work on smooth integration with Roots’ tools / stack which I believe isn’t so easy today as we for example require the default WP folder structure.
If you have any ideas / suggestions how these two things could work together in the future I’ll be happy to hear them.
I hope that the remainder of dev for VP goes smoothly.
Of course if there’s any way we can integrate into Roots, I think that would be incredible for multi-developer projects. If there’s a will, there’s a way - but I guess patience is key.