How to reset migrations in Django 1.7

I would just do the following on both the environments (as long as the code is the same)

Delete your migrations folder DELETE FROM django_migrations WHERE app = . You could alternatively just truncate this table. python manage.py makemigrations python manage.py migrate --fake

After this all your changes should get detected across environments.

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Run

python manage.py migrate your_app zero

This will drop all tables from your_app

If you want, since you said you want to start over, you can delete your migrations folder, or maybe rename the folder, create a new migrations folder and run

python manage.py makemigrations your_app
python manage.py migrate your_app

Just like south, you can always go back and forth...

# Go to the first migration
python manage.py migrate your_app 0001

# Go to the third migration
python manage.py migrate your_app 0003

So imagine that your 4th migration is a mess... you can always migrate to the 3rd, remove the 4th migration file and do it again.

Note:

This one of the reasons your models should be in different apps. Say you have 2 models : User and Note. It's a good practice to create 2 apps: users and notes so the migrations are independent from each other.

Try not use a single application for all your models

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A minor variation on harshil's answer:

$ manage.py migrate --fake <appname> zero
$ rm -rf migrations
$ manage.py makemigrations <appname>
$ manage.py migrate --fake <appname>

This will ...

pretend to rollback all of your migrations without touching the actual tables in the app

remove your existing migration scripts for the app

create a new initial migration for the app

fake a migration to the initial migration for the app

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To reset all migrations and start all over, you can run the following:

1. Reset all migration

python manage.py migrate <app_name> zero

ℹ️ If this is causing you issues you can add the --fake flag to the end of the command.

2. Create the migration

python manage.py makemigrations <app_name>

ℹ️ Only do this step if you deleted or altered the migrations files

3. Migrate

python manage.py migrate <app_name>

⚠️ if you added the --fake command to step # 1 you will need to add --fake-initial to the migrate command so python manage.py migrate --fake-initial

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I had a similar issue to this but when testing some of these same solutions using python manage.py showmigrations I noticed I got the same error.

Eventually I found this post which helped me realize I was overcomplicating things and essentially had two User models defined.

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So this solution worked for me today.

Drop the django migrations table called "django_migrations" (No need to drop the whole database - just the migration table.) Deleted all migrations files (e.g. 0002_auto.py, etc) from all your apps, leave the __init__.py files. You can use this code from Ahmed Bouchefra: find . -path "/migrations/.py" -not -name "init.py" -delete find . -path "/migrations/.pyc" -delete

(This find and delete code works only for linux. For Windows you have to delete your files manually.)

Now run the following commands: python manage.py makemigrations python manage.py migrate --fake

django will create a new migration table and fake the initial migration into the table without touching your existing data. Enjoy.

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This works for me

Step1: delete all "migrations" folders in all apps

Step2:
create a brand new app.
python manage.py justTestApp.
Copy the new "migrations" folder of the new app to all apps

Step3: delete the "db.sqlite3" file. delete the "justTestApp" folder

Step4:
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

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After you have resetted your unwanted migrations in your project, you can still have the issue of having these unwanted migrations in your test database (the one created by pytest).

You can reset the test database by adding the --create-db to your test command:

py.test path/to-tests.py --create-db

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As mentioned by @brunofitas, going back to the previous migration helped my case. I thereafter deleted the migrations from that point to the last one, ran makemigrations, migrated and I was done.

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If you want a completely clean start, you're gonna wanna drop the DB. Which means then to recreate it, add privileges, re-generate all the migrations, re-run them and create a superuser.

Good news is that you can easily make all this into a single/few line commands.

Fresh migration files

If you delete the whole folders, you're gonna have to run the makemigrations command mentioning all the app names. That's a hassle if you do this often. To have Django see the apps that need migrations, you'll wanna keep the migrations folder and the __init__.py inside them.

Here's a bash command for that:

find . -path "*migrations*" -not -regex ".*__init__.py" -a -not -regex ".*migrations" | xargs rm -rf

Then the usual (this should create migrations for all the apps that had migrations before):

python manage.py makemigrations

Resetting the DB

For SQLite just delete the DB file.

For PostgreSQL run this in the console:

psql -c "drop database <db_name>;"
psql -c "create database <db_name>;"
psql -c "grant all on database <db_name> to <db_user>;"

And then finally re-run migrations with

python manage.py migrate

Superuser

You're gonna obviously be missing a superuser, so you might wanna also do:

python manage.py createsuperuser

No-input way of doing that is piping python code into the shell:

echo "from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model; User = get_user_model(); User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'badmin@myproject.com', 'pa$$w0rd')" | python manage.py shell

Generally speaking about these very common actions - Do yourself a favour and write a bit of bash. It has saved me many, many accumulated hours over the years of working with not only Django. Because even better than a oneline command is having a whole utility file to store more of these handy functions. Then you can just run something like:

django --reset_migrations
db --reset <my_db>
django --migrate

Or even aggregate that into a single line if you find yourself repeating the same few actions. Add this to your bashprofile

reset_django() {
    find . -path "*migrations*" -not -regex ".*__init__.py" -a -not -regex ".*migrations" | xargs rm -rf
    python manage.py makemigrations
    psql -c "drop database <db_name>;"
    psql -c "create database <db_name>;"
    psql -c "grant all on database <db_name> to <db_user>;"
    python manage.py migrate
    echo "from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model; User = get_user_model(); User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'badmin@myproject.com', 'pa$$w0rd')" | python manage.py shell
}

My Django lite utilities for inspiration:

#!/bin/bash


django() {

    project_name=$(basename $PWD)
    project_path="$PWD"
    manage_path="${project_path}/${project_name}/manage.py"

    if [ ! -f $manage_path ] ; then  # No project/manage.py
        echo "Error: Could not locate Django manage.py file."
        return -1
    fi

    if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
        echo "Django project detected."
    fi

    while [ ! $# -eq 0 ]
        do
            case "$1" in

                --help | -h)
                        echo "Django shortcut, unknown commands are forwarded to manage.py"
                        echo "  -c, --check         Run Django manage.py check."
                        echo "  --req           Install requirements."
                        echo "  -r, --run           Run server."
                        echo "  -s, --shell         Run Django shell plus."
                        echo "  -sd, --shell            Run Django shell plus. Debug DB (print sql)"
                        echo ""
                    ;;

                --check | -c)
                        python $manage_path check
                    ;;

                --shell | -s)
                        python $manage_path shell_plus --bpython
                    ;;

                --shell | -sd)
                        python $manage_path shell_plus --bpython --print-sql
                    ;;

                --run | -r)
                        python $manage_path runserver
                    ;;

                --req)
                        pip install -r $project_path/requirements.txt
                    ;;

                --mig | -m)
                        python $manage_path makemigrations
                        python $manage_path migrate
                    ;;

                --reset_migrations)
                        find . -path "*migrations*" -not -regex ".*__init__.py" -a -not -regex ".*migrations" | xargs rm -rf
                        python $manage_path makemigrations
                        ;;

                *)
                    python $manage_path "$@"
                    ;;

            esac
            shift
        done

}

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