On Sunday 10 January 2016 08:09:33 Carl Meyer wrote: > On 01/09/2016 09:29 AM, Shai Berger wrote: > > There are two kinds of data migrations, generally speaking. > > > > [...] > > > > The other is migrations which *create* data -- fill in tables for > > database- implemented-enums, for example. If you remove these, you are > > going to break your tests (if you do this and haven't broken your tests, > > your tests are missing -- I'd go as far as calling them broken). > > I consider this second kind of data migration to be marginally smelly, > and avoid it whenever possible.
It should be noted that this kind of migration is what we recommend officially as a substitute for initial_data fixtures: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/initial-data/#automatically-loading-initial-data-fixtures Shai.
