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Tips for Naming Django Migrations
Django gives names to migrations based on the timestamp. In this lesson, you’ll see how to alter this behaviour by using the --name switch to give your migrations custom names.
00:01 Next, you’ll see how to name your migrations. With the previous example, Django came up with a name automatically based on the timestamp. You can see it here.
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However, this isn’t very descriptive, and naming your migrations will be well worth the extra few keystrokes of adding the --name switch to the end of the command.
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Firstly, remove the unapplied migration, and now use makemigrations
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with the --name switch added and a descriptive name.
00:54 The migration file is named much more sensibly now and will make a lot more sense in the future when you look back at it.
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Romain BOBOE on June 3, 2020
Short and effective. Thanks fort this lessons