Safely remove migration In Laravel

Question

I accidentally created a migration with a bad name (command: php artisan migrate:make). I did not run (php artisan migrate) the migration, so I decided to remove it. My steps:

1. Manually delete the migration file under app/database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php
2. Reset the composer autoload files: composer dump-autoload
3. Relax

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If you did run the migration (php artisan migrate), you may do this:

a) Run migrate:rollback - it is the right way to undo the last migration (Thnx @Jakobud)

b) If migrate:rollback does not work, do it manually (I remember bugs with migrate:rollback in previous versions):

1. Manually delete the migration file under app/database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php
2. Reset the composer autoload files: composer dump-autoload
3. Modify your database: Remove the last entry from the migrations table

If the migration has been run (read: migrated) then you should roll back your migration to clear the history from your database table. Once you're rolled back you should be able to safely delete your migration file and then proceed with migrating again.

 php artisan migrate:fresh

Should do the job, if you are in development and the desired outcome is to start all over.

In production, that maybe not the desired thing, so you should be adverted. (The migrate:fresh command will drop all tables from the database and then execute the migrate command).

You likely need to delete the entry from the migrations table too.

DO NOT run php artisan migrate:fresh that's gonna drop all the tables