Django - makemigrations - No changes detected

Question

I was trying to create migrations within an existing app using the makemigrations command but it outputs \"No changes detected\".

Usually I create new apps using the

Answer 1

There are sometimes when ./manage.py makemigrations is superior to ./manage.py makemigrations because it can handle certain conflicts between apps.

Those occasions occur silently and it takes several hours of swearing to understand the real meaning of the dreaded No changes detected message.

Therefore, it is a far better choice to make use of the following command:

./manage.py makemigrations ...