Django migration strategy for renaming a model and relationship fields

Question

I\'m planning to rename several models in an existing Django project where there are many other models that have foreign key relationships to the models I would like to rena

Answer 1

For Django 1.10, I managed to change two model class names (including a ForeignKey, and with data) by simply running Makemigrations, and then Migrate for the app. For the Makemigrations step, I had to confirm that I wanted to change the table names. Migrate changed the names of the tables without a problem.

Then I changed the name of the ForeignKey field to match, and again was asked by Makemigrations to confirm that I wanted to change the name. Migrate than made the change.

So I took this in two steps without any special file editing. I did get errors at first because I forgot to change the admin.py file, as mentioned by @wasibigeek.