[Django]-New revision isn't created when saving model

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I had a similar problem where edits made in the admin interface had reversions, but those in the shell did not.

@yilmazhuseyin is correct, you need the context wrapper, but I found I had an additional bug that my models weren’t getting registered.

In admin.py:

class YourModelAdmin(reversion.VersionAdmin):
    pass

admin.site.register(YourModel, YourModelAdmin)

will register your model, but only if the admin code is called. It wasn’t being called when I invoked the shell via python manage.py shell

So, to fix this I added to models.py

import reversion
reversion.register(YourModel)

And then when I saved an object, I still needed to use the context wrapper

 with reversion.create_revision():
     obj.save()

Update:

Revision has a few tips for this situation. (http://django-reversion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html#api) One is to simply import your admin module so that the revision gets called.

👤DrRobotNinja

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I think you need to save model in revision transaction.

Note: If you call save() outside of the scope of a revision, a revision is NOT created. This means that you are in control of when to create revisions.

Source: http://django-reversion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html#creating-revisions

👤yilmazhuseyin

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