Django 1.8 - what's the difference between migrate and makemigrations?
According to the documentation here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/ it says:
migrate, which is responsible for applying migrations, as well as unapplying and listing their status.
and
makemigrations, which is responsible for creating new migrations based on the changes you have made to your models.
From what I understand, I first do
makemigrations
to create the migration file and then do
migrate
to actually apply the migration?
Do note though that I just began my Django project and I added my app to my "installed_apps" list. After that, I did
python manage.py runserver
and it said
You have unapplied migrations; your app may not work properly until they are applied. Run 'python manage.py migrate' to apply them.
It didn't mention anything about running makemigrations.
Answer
According the Polls tutorial:
python manage.py makemigrations <app>: Create the migrations (generate theSQLcommands).python manage.py migrate: Run the migrations (execute theSQLcommands).