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

My solution was not covered here so I'm posting it. I had been using syncdb for a project–just to get it up and running. Then when I tried to start using Django migrations, it faked them at first then would say it was 'OK' but nothing was happening to the database.

My solution was to just delete all the migration files for my app, as well as the database records for the app migrations in the django_migrations table.

Then I just did an initial migration with:

./manage.py makemigrations my_app

followed by:

./manage.py migrate my_app

Now I can make migrations without a problem.