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

I am using Django version 1.9.4

I have follow the following steps:-

I have just rename the model oldName to NewName Run python manage.py makemigrations. It will ask you for Did you rename the appname.oldName model to NewName? [y/N] select Y

Run python manage.py migrate and it will ask you for

The following content types are stale and need to be deleted:

appname | oldName
appname | NewName

Any objects related to these content types by a foreign key will also be deleted. Are you sure you want to delete these content types? If you're unsure, answer 'no'.

Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: Select No

It rename and migrate all existing data to new named table for me.