Why use South during initial development?

Question

I\'m wondering about the advantages of using (django) South during heavy initial development of a project.

At the early stages of development there\'s normally rapid mo

Answer 1

As soon as I am about push a commit that other people need to use, I create a migration so they can still have a working copy.

If you are working alone(and not worrying about deployment), this is not an issue and you can wait until the last possible moment to create a migration.

Once you begin working with others, it makes life easier to quickly make migrations so it becomes a workflow habit and everyone is on the same database page.

Also, syncdb is not an option if you are simply modifying a field. It gets incredibly annoying to have to blow away a table just for adding, deleting or modifying fields.

If I have a bunch of schema migrations that I added, sometimes I will combine them(rollback and delete them and create a new jumbo migration) into a single migration. But normally, the number of migrations doesn't bother me because they don't cost me anything really.