#25313: Document how to migrate from a built-in User model to a custom User
model
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Reporter: Carl Meyer | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Old description:
> So far our answer here has been "sorry, you can't do it, unless you're
> very familiar with the depths of the migrations system and willing to put
> a lot of time into it."
>
> I don't believe that this is a tenable or defensible answer. It puts too
> many of our users, too frequently, into an impossible quandary. I think
> we need to clearly document how you can do it today, even if the process
> is nasty and ugly. Hopefully seeing that nasty and ugly documentation
> might clarify what could be improved to make the process less nasty and
> ugly.
New description:
So far our answer here has been "sorry, you can't do it, unless you're
very familiar with the depths of the migrations system and willing to put
a lot of time into it."
I don't believe that this is a tenable or defensible answer. It puts too
many of our users, too frequently, into an impossible quandary. I think we
need to clearly document how you can do it today, even if the process is
nasty and ugly. Hopefully seeing that nasty and ugly documentation might
clarify what could be improved to make the process less nasty and ugly.
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Comment (by Julien Palard):
I tried the procedure from
[https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25313#comment:18 comment 18] today
and it worked perfectly [https://framagit.org/hackinscience/hkis-
website/-/commit/3ec73d39af57394546a9499052fb2ebda2c3aff9 (see my
commit)].
P.S.: About [https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25313#comment:20
comment 20] I bet the find deleted things in the venv. Maybe add a
`-maxdepth 3`?
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25313#comment:22>
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