How to revert the last migration?

django django-migrations
Ronen Ness picture Ronen Ness · Aug 20, 2015 · Viewed 223.3k times · Source

I've made a migration that added a new table and want to revert it and delete the migration, without creating a new migration.

How do I do it? Is there a command to revert last migration and then I can simply delete the migration file?

Answer

Alasdair picture Alasdair · Aug 20, 2015

You can revert by migrating to the previous migration.

For example, if your last two migrations are:

  • 0010_previous_migration
  • 0011_migration_to_revert

Then you would do:

./manage.py migrate my_app 0010_previous_migration

You can then delete migration 0011_migration_to_revert.

If you're using Django 1.8+, you can show the names of all the migrations with

./manage.py showmigrations my_app

To reverse all migrations for an app, you can run:

./manage.py migrate my_app zero

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