Migrations end up inside venv?

[vidstige]

I installed djang-carrot package, added it to installed apps and ran python manage.py makemigrations, but the migrations ended up inside the virtual environment... Why is that?

$ python manage.py makemigrations carrot Migrations for 'carrot': venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/carrot/migrations/0001_initial.py

• Create model MessageLog
• Create model ScheduledTask

The problem is, as the virtual environment is not checked in to source controll I cannot check in the migration, which normally how things are done in Django. What's the thought here? What I'm I doing wrong?

[vidstige]

Apparently, you need to do the following. Perhaps something for the "Getting Started" section of the documentation to ensure that sweet flying start for peoples.

MIGRATION_MODULES = {'carrot': 'to_module.folder_migrations'}

[chris104957]

that's weird, I had no idea. Will get the docs updated ASAP. We run it mostly in containers here so I haven't seen that before

[vidstige]

I see. But how do you create the migration? Inside the container and then copy it outside to check it in? Or do you check it in from the container.. Seems cumbersome.

[vidstige]

I created the django-carrot tag on stack overflow. We'll see if it survives. :)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50167465/migrations-ends-up-inside-virtual-environment

[chris104957]

We actually run makemigrations for carrot inside the docker image

[chris104957]

I looked into this a bit more and now believe that the correct course of action is to include the migrations in the installation. This is now done in 3c20965, version 1.1.1. Docs have been updated to confirm that the carrot migrations now only need to be applied, not created

[vidstige]

That makes sense, will try that out. Thanks for looking into this. 🙇