Django South - table already exists

Question

I am trying to get started with South. I had an existing database and I added South (syncdb, schemamigration --initial).

Then, I updated <

Answer 1

If you have an existing database and app you can use the south conversion command

./manage.py convert_to_south myapp

This has to be applied before you do any changes to what is already in the database.

The convert_to_south command only works entirely on the first machine you run it on. Once you’ve committed the initial migrations it made into your VCS, you’ll have to run ./manage.py migrate myapp 0001 --fake on every machine that has a copy of the codebase (make sure they were up-to-date with models and schema first). ref: http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/convertinganapp.html