Django 1.7 - makemigrations not detecting changes

Question

As the title says, I can\'t seem to get migrations working.

The app was originally under 1.6, so I understand that migrations won\'t be there initially, and indeed i

Answer 1

If you're changing over from an existing app you made in django 1.6, then you need to do one pre-step (as I found out) listed in the documentation:

python manage.py makemigrations your_app_label

The documentation does not make it obvious that you need to add the app label to the command, as the first thing it tells you to do is python manage.py makemigrations which will fail. The initial migration is done when you create your app in version 1.7, but if you came from 1.6 it wouldn't have been carried out. See the 'Adding migration to apps' in the documentation for more details.