[Answer]-Best way to add Django migrations to a django project

Most depends by the code

The project does not have migrations at all

./manage.py makemigrations
./manage.py migrate

The project has South migrations:

you can:

1. move the south migrations in south_migrations

   or

2. totally remove the south migrations

and

./manage.py makemigrations
./manage.py migrate

if you go for option 1 you have to remember to keep uptodate your migrations with both systems (south and django). This is useful only if you want to keep django <1.7 compatibility

You have a pluggable application

This is the most complex situataion as you must preserve the south compatibility and you have to manage different version of south. Here the how to:

1. move the south migrations in south_migrations
2. run ./manage.py makemigrations
3. to prevent South to load the wrong migratins put the following code into migration.__init__.py

“`

"""
Django migrations

This package does not contain South migrations.  South migrations can be found
in the ``south_migrations`` package.
"""

SOUTH_ERROR_MESSAGE = """\n
For South support, customize the SOUTH_MIGRATION_MODULES setting like so:

SOUTH_MIGRATION_MODULES = {
    'wfp_auth': 'wfp_auth.south_migrations',
}
"""

# Ensure the user is not using Django 1.6 or below with South
try:
    from django.db import migrations  # noqa
except ImportError:
    from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
raise ImproperlyConfigured(SOUTH_ERROR_MESSAGE)

“`