Django "You have unapplied migrations". Which ones?

Question

Django runserver complains:

You have unapplied migrations; 
your app may not work properly until they are applied. 
Run 'python manage.py migrate' to apply them.

How can I find out which migrations are unapplied without running migrate?

Answer 1

If you're on 1.7, use python manage.py migrate --list. (docs)

If you're on 1.8 or above, use python manage.py showmigrations --list. (docs)

In either case, there will be an [X] to show which migrations have been applied.

Answer 2

A minor modification on Kevin's answer using grep, to only show unapplied migrations:

Django 1.7:

python manage.py migrate --list | grep -v '\[X\]'

Django 1.8 and above:

python manage.py showmigrations --list | grep -v '\[X\]'

Edited after ngoue's comment. Nice catch. Thanks for pointing it out.

Answer 3

You can see a list of just the unapplied migrations with the --plan option of the migrate command:

python manage.py migrate --plan

It was introduced in Django 2.2 and is documented here.