Django 1.7 - makemigrations not detecting changes

Question

As the title says, I can\'t seem to get migrations working.

The app was originally under 1.6, so I understand that migrations won\'t be there initially, and indeed i

Answer 1

Just in case you have a specific field that does not get identified by makemigrations: check twice if you have a property with the same name.

example:

field = django.db.models.CharField(max_length=10, default = '', blank=True, null=True)

# ... later

@property
def field(self):
    pass

the property will "overwrite" the field definition so changes will not get identified by makemigrations