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JacobF
JacobF

Reputation: 2485

Django South migrations directory outside django project

I'm trying to setup South in a way that the location of the migrations directories will be outside the Django directory. I can use SOUT_MIGRATION_MODULES to change the location of the directories within Django (to every place with an init file), but that's not enough for me. Unfortunately, SOUT_MIGRATION_MODULES doesn't accept full paths as input.

Can anybody explain how I can make South to place the migrations directories to a specified path outside the Django directory?

Update: This is the current directory structure:

Idealy I would like south to puth the migrations folder in the Data directory, which is outside the entire django project.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 219

Answers (1)

Hedde van der Heide
Hedde van der Heide

Reputation: 22439

As it takes any module, just create a module outside your project and add it to your python path, e.g.:

SOUTH_MIGRATION_MODULES = {
    'blog': '<my_foreign_module>.migrations.blog',
}

Another way would be to monkey patch South's Migrations class, but really, you should avoid this hackery.

from south.migration.base import Migrations

def migrations_dir(self):
    return #my_ugly_hack

Migrations.migrations_dir = migrations_dir

Upvotes: 2

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