title: Merging dev and live prestashop databases
body: <p>I have extensive modifications to carry out on a prestashop 1.6 site.</p>
  
  <p>I have created a local copy, and am tracking filesystem changes in git.</p>
  
  <p>However a lot of changes in prestashop are stored in the database, specifically in my case:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Installing and configuring a new module </li>
  <li>Uninstalling a module</li>
  <li>Adding shop categories and changing the hierarchy</li>
  <li>Changing module positions</li>
  <li>and generally modifying what modules appear in what hooks.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>During the dev process, the live site has received numerous new orders, customers, subscribers etc, so the databases are out of sync.</p>
  
  <p>I have solved similar problems in other frameworks by dumping and importing specific tables in the db, or using the frameworks built in migrations functionality, but i cannot find any advise specifically for prestashop.</p>
  
  <p>How is this handled?</p>
  
  <p>Considering that the dev site has probably undergone more diverse changes than the live one, i wonder if it would be easier to copy the new orders etc over to the dev site then overwrite the whole thing?</p>