Why does Django make migrations for help_text and verbose_name changes?

Question

When I change help_text or verbose_name for any of my model fields and run python manage.py makemigrations, it detects these changes a

Answer 1

To avoid unnecessary migrations You can do as follows:

1. Subclass field that causes migration
2. Write custom deconstruct method inside that field
3. Profit

Example:

from django.db import models

class CustomCharField(models.CharField):  # or any other field

    def deconstruct(self):
        name, path, args, kwargs = super(CustomCharField, self).deconstruct()
        # exclude all fields you dont want to cause migration, my example below:
        if 'help_text' in kwargs:
            del kwargs['help_text']
        if 'verbose_name' in kwargs:
            del kwargs['verbose_name']
        return name, path, args, kwargs

Hope that helps

Answer 2

I have written custom module for that purpose

All you need is to save it in some utils/models.db and in all your models instead of from django.db import models write from utils import models

If somebody is interested in it I can write a component and publish it on pypi

UPD: try this https://github.com/FeroxTL/django-migration-control

# models.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from types import FunctionType
from django.db import models


class NoMigrateMixin(object):
    """
    Позволяет исключить из миграций различные поля
    """
    def deconstruct(self):
        name, path, args, kwargs = super(NoMigrateMixin, self).deconstruct()
        kwargs.pop('help_text', None)
        kwargs.pop('verbose_name', None)
        return name, path, args, kwargs


# =============================================================================
# DJANGO CLASSES
# =============================================================================

for name, cls in models.__dict__.items():
    if isinstance(cls, type):
        if issubclass(cls, models.Field):
            # Поля
            globals()[name] = type(name, (NoMigrateMixin, cls), {})
        else:
            # Всякие менеджеры
            globals()[name] = cls
    elif isinstance(cls, FunctionType):
        # Прочие функции
        globals()[name] = cls