Django 1.7 - makemigrations not detecting changes

If you're changing over from an existing app you made in django 1.6, then you need to do one pre-step (as I found out) listed in the documentation:

python manage.py makemigrations your_app_label

The documentation does not make it obvious that you need to add the app label to the command, as the first thing it tells you to do is python manage.py makemigrations which will fail. The initial migration is done when you create your app in version 1.7, but if you came from 1.6 it wouldn't have been carried out. See the 'Adding migration to apps' in the documentation for more details.

Ok, looks like I missed an obvious step, but posting this in case anyone else does the same.

When upgrading to 1.7, my models became unmanaged (managed = False) - I had them as True before but seems it got reverted.

Removing that line (To default to True) and then running makemigrations immediately made a migration module and now it's working. makemigrations will not work on unmanaged tables (Which is obvious in hindsight)

My solution was not covered here so I'm posting it. I had been using syncdb for a project–just to get it up and running. Then when I tried to start using Django migrations, it faked them at first then would say it was 'OK' but nothing was happening to the database.

My solution was to just delete all the migration files for my app, as well as the database records for the app migrations in the django_migrations table.

Then I just did an initial migration with:

./manage.py makemigrations my_app

followed by:

./manage.py migrate my_app

Now I can make migrations without a problem.

Agree with @furins. If everything seems to be in order and yet this problem arises, checkout if there is any property method with same title as the attribute which you are trying to add in the Model class.

1. Remove method with similar name as attribute you are adding.
2. manage.py makemigrations my_app
3. manage.py migrate my_app
4. Add the methods back.