I've always worried about the tradeoff between:

• Conceptual clarity of including the sqlite database in the repo and therefore sidestepping the messiness of having to rollback migrations before switching branches / being able to solve data integrity issues by jumping back to previous commits.
• Merge conflicts caused by data differences in different branches.

Is this a potential solution?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15232000/git-ignore-files-during-merge

If so, we should consider including an appropriate .gitattribute file in all projects.