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

Adding my 2c, since none of these solutions worked for me, but this did...

I had just run manage.py squashmigrations and removed the old migrations (both the files and lines in the the django.migrations database table).

This left a line like this in the last migration file:

replaces = [(b'my_app', '0006_auto_20170713_1735'), (b'my_app', '0007_auto_20170713_2003'), (b'my_app', '0008_auto_20170713_2004')]

This apparently confused Django and caused weird behavior: running manage.py makemigrations my_app would recreate the initial migration as if none existed. Removing the replaces... line fixed the problem!