Undo or reset the faked migrations in django

Question

In my project which is based on django-1.8.2 I was facing some problems with migrations so i ran command

python manage.py migrate --fake

But it faked all the migrations which this command is meant for. But now python manage.py migrate command is not doing or applying any migration. I want to undo the faked migrations so that I can apply the migrations to database. I want to apply the existing migrations to the database.

Answer 1

For each app, you can fake the migrations back to where they were before you faked them.

python manage.py migrate --fake myapp 00XX_last_migration

where 00XX_last_migration is the last migration that you actually ran for your app myapp.

Or, if you haven't actually run any migrations for that app yet:

python manage.py migrate --fake myapp zero

Answer 2

From the docs:

be warned that using --fake runs the risk of putting the migration state table into a state where manual recovery will be needed to make migrations run correctly.

So I suggest you to simply remove faked migrations from django_migrations table.