How to simplify migrations in Django 1.7?

Question

There are already similar questions for South, but I have started my project with Django 1.7 and am not using South.

During development a lot of migrations have been created, however the software is not yet delievered and there exists no database that must be migrated. Therefore I would like to reset the migrations as if my current model was the original one and recreate all databases.

What is the recommended way to do that?

EDIT: As of Django 1.8 there is a new command named squashmigrations which more or less solves the problem described here.

Answer 1

I got this. I just figured this out and it is good.

• First, to clear migrations table:

  ./manage.py migrate --fake <app-name> zero 

• Remove app-name/migrations/ folder or contents.

• Make the migrations:

  ./manage.py makemigrations <app-name> 

• Finally tidy up your migrations without making other database changes:

  ./manage.py migrate --fake <app-name> 

Answer 2

In the Django 1.7 version of migrations the reset functionality that used to be in South has been dropped in favor of new functionality for 'squashing' your migrations. This is supposed to be a good way to keep the number of migrations in check.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#squashing-migrations

If you still want to really start from scratch i assume you still could by emptying the migrations table and removing the migrations after which you would run makemigrations again.