python - Django 1.7 - makemigrations not detecting changes

Question

As the title says, I can't seem to get migrations working.

The app was originally under 1.6, so I understand that migrations won't be there initially, and indeed if I run python manage.py migrate I get:

Operations to perform:
  Synchronize unmigrated apps: myapp
  Apply all migrations: admin, contenttypes, auth, sessions
Synchronizing apps without migrations:
  Creating tables...
  Installing custom SQL...
  Installing indexes...
Running migrations:
  No migrations to apply.

If I make a change to any models in myapp, it still says unmigrated, as expected.

But if I run python manage.py makemigrations myapp I get:

No changes detected in app 'myapp'

Doesn't seem to matter what or how I run the command, it's never detecting the app as having changes, nor is it adding any migration files to the app.

Is there any way to force an app onto migrations and essentially say "This is my base to work with" or anything? Or am I missing something?

My database is a PostgreSQL one if that helps at all.

Answer 1

If you're changing over from an existing app you made in django 1.6, then you need to do one pre-step (as I found out) listed in the documentation:

python manage.py makemigrations your_app_label

The documentation does not make it obvious that you need to add the app label to the command, as the first thing it tells you to do is python manage.py makemigrations which will fail. The initial migration is done when you create your app in version 1.7, but if you came from 1.6 it wouldn't have been carried out. See the 'Adding migration to apps' in the documentation for more details.