Django 1.7 makemigrations not having an effect

Question

I keep running python manage.py makemigrations on my heroku server, but no matter how many times I run it I get:

$heroku run python manage.py makemigrations
Running `python manage.py makemigrations` attached to terminal... up, run.2680
Migrations for 'default':
  0002_auto_20141120_2007.py:
    - Alter field user on usersocialauth

and if I run heroku run python manage.py migrate

it comes back with:

Running `python manage.py migrate` attached to terminal... up, run.1285
Operations to perform:
  Synchronize unmigrated apps: baflist_core, rest_framework, localflavor, storages
  Apply all migrations: admin, userAccount, contenttypes, sessions, default, location, messaging, forum, auth, posts
Synchronizing apps without migrations:
  Creating tables...
  Installing custom SQL...
  Installing indexes...
Running migrations:
  No migrations to apply.
  Your models have changes that are not yet reflected in a migration, and so won't be applied.
  Run 'manage.py makemigrations' to make new migrations, and then re-run 'manage.py migrate' to apply them.

Admittedly, I only know enough about postgres and migrations to be dangerous, so I figured I'd ask on here. Has anyone run into this before?

You should not be running makemigrations on the server. Run it locally, add the created migration files to git, and push it, and heroku will automatically run migrate for you — Daniel Roseman, Nov 20 '14 at 21:53

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 07 '16 at 17:23

After local migration completed you should have migration file(s) on <your django app>/migrations folder Ex (restapi is mine django application here):

/Django/app/folder/restapi/migrations$ ls
0001_initial.py  0001_initial.pyc  __init__.py  __init__.pyc

So you should commit migrations file manually:

heroku$ git commit restapi/migrations/0001_initial.py -m "migrations file"
heroku$ git push heroku master

Note: NO heroku will not run migrate on you app automatically! I have checked this! You should run migrate for your app after you push the file:

heroku$ heroku run python manage.py migrate restapi Running python manage.py migrate restapi attached to terminal... up, run.4602 Operations to perform: Apply all migrations: restapi Running migrations: Applying restapi.0001_initial... OK

Thank you for this answer. I was scratching my head on this issue as my settings file reflected the heroku settings and I had not yet created another dev settings file to run things locally then pushing back to heroku. +1! — John Z, Mar 26 '15 at 00:42

Django 1.7 makemigrations not having an effect

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