Comments on: Getting Started with South (Django Database Migrations)

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:18:05 +0000

Good write up, thanks.

You said, “note: this is the last time you’ll run ‘syncdb’”

I believe it’s ok to rerun it though, in case you are using a release system, like fabric, and don’t want to special case the initial syncdb.

./manage.py migrate will effectively a syncdb for you to pickup DB state for apps in your settings.py that are *NOT* South managed. So, you indeed never need to run syncdb again. But, you can.

By: Anton

Anton — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:27:03 +0000

thanks!

By: John Chase

John Chase — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:20:52 +0000

Probably just a editor auto correct, but ‘auto’ and ‘initial’ arguments should contain two dashes, not one; e.g. run ‘python manage.py schemamigration myapp –auto.

By: vangel

vangel — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:54:21 +0000

thanks mitch. really the docs were not clear on the steps. I had given up till i saw your post.

You have some good tips here, specific but usable. Any chance you can do a write up on how to use the multiple sites management in django?

thanks man

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By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:56:35 +0000

Those should be two hyphens preceding the "initial" switch, not two dashes. A dash is longer than a hyphen. There's no dash in ASCII, so traditionally, the dash is represented by two hyphens. See the documentation for Python's getopt module for more about command line argument processing in Python.

By: John DeRosa

John DeRosa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:41:24 +0000

I’ve been hesitant to try South, preferring instead to write my own SQL scripts for migration. Thanks for making the water seem less intimidating. I’m going to give it a go at work.

By: ivan

ivan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:52:44 +0000

A few months ago the documentation of South was ugly, but then it was refactored and now it’s pretty simple and understandable – http://south.aeracode.org/docs/.
It has also enough amount of examples, so there isn’t real need to explain how to work with South on other sources.
Thanks for function mig(), but autocomplete in Django 1.2 rules too

By: Tomas

Tomas — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:25:26 +0000

Thank you for this! I think the documentation is somewhat vague on this subject. Nice to see it explained so easy.