[Django]-Should Django migrations live in source control?

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Yes, absolutely!!

From the docs:

The migration files for each app live in a “migrations” directory inside of that app, and are designed to be committed to, and distributed as part of, its codebase. You should be making them once on your development machine and then running the same migrations on your colleagues’ machines, your staging machines, and eventually your production machines.

One big point is that migrations should always be tested before you deploy them in production. You should never create migrations on production, only apply them.

You also want to synchronise the state of the models in source control with the state of the database. If someone pulls your branch, has to find a bug, and goes back in the source control’s history, he’d need the migration files to change the state of the database to match that point in time. If he has to create his own migration files, they won’t include the intermediate state, and he runs into a problem where his models are out-of-sync with the database.

👤knbk

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