When to use migrate and makemigrations?

Question

Django

I'm probably a little dumb, but I didn't find a direct answer to my question (probably because my English is very bed) As I understood from the documentation makemigrations - creates SQL code but does not apply it, and migrate - applies the migration file created by makemigrations and already applies it to SQL, after which a snapshot is created in version control. The question that torments me is: It turns out that you always need to use makemigrations and then migrate for any changes in the database? Even if you changed the field? What if you changed the field and applied .save()? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You need to do migrations when you change a field in a model (not a model instance). And after the migrations are done, it’s best to apply them.