How to sync from development branch to production

[tranbathanhtung]

https://docs.turso.tech/sync/turso-cloud
Turso sync only sync local db to cloud db. But I want to sync between branches. How to do it?

[apoorva-01]

There's no branch-to-branch sync, and that's on purpose. Turso's sync (the feature that docs page is about) only runs between a local embedded replica and its cloud primary. Branches aren't part of that loop at all.

A branch is a full, independent database that gets forked once, at the moment you create it (turso db create prod --from-db dev). After that the two have zero connection, so nothing keeps them in step.

So promoting dev → prod is manual:

• schema: run your migrations against prod (same tool you already use for migrations)
• data: dump and load — turso db shell dev .dump > dump.sql then turso db shell prod < dump.sql

It's closer to "clone the database" than "a git branch you merge back", which trips a lot of people up given the name.