django-migrations-ignore-attrs

django-migrations-ignore-attrs is a package that overrides makemigration and migrate commands for Django's manage.py command.

django-migrations-ignore-attrs allows to avoid making of unnecessary migrations for attributes that do not have any representation in database schema.

Following attributes of model are ignored:

• verbose_name
• verbose_name_plural

Following attributes of standard fields are ignored:

• choices
• help_text
• verbose_name

Following attributes of ForeignKey are ignored:

• related_name
• related_query_name

Installation

Install with pip or pipenv:

pip install django-migrations-ignore-attrs

Add django_migrations_ignore_attrs to your installed apps in your settings.py file:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django_migrations_ignore_attrs',
    ...
]

Optional configuration:

# ignored attributes of model
MIGRATION_IGNORE_MODEL_ATTRS = ['verbose_name', 'verbose_name_plural']

# ignored attributes of standard fields
MIGRATION_IGNORE_FIELD_ATTRS = ['choices', 'help_text', 'verbose_name']

# ignored attributes of ForeignKey
MIGRATION_IGNORE_RELATED_FIELD_ATTRS = ['related_name', 'related_query_name']

Commands

makemigrations

Creates new migration(s) for apps.

All options are the same as for original makemigrations command from django app.

migrate

Updates database schema. Manages both apps with migrations and those without.

All options are the same as for original migrate command from django app.

Documentation

See http://django-migrations-ignore-attrs.readthedocs.org/

License

Copyright © 2019, Piotr Roszatycki

This software is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL 3 or greater).