managed

managed=False

• makemigrations

  • https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py

  • Create Migrations with 'managed': False in migrations.CreateModel

    class Migration(migrations.Migration):
        initial = True
        dependencies = [
        ]
        operations = [
            migrations.CreateModel(
                name='',
                fields=[
                ],
                options={
                    'managed': False,
                },
            ),
        ]
    

• migrate

  • https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py
  • Insert into table django_migrations
  • Skip managed=False

References

[1] Docs@DjangoProject, Model Meta options - Options.managed

[2] thekorn@StackOverflow, django: exclude models from migrations

[3] Ticket@DjangoProject, Migrations do not ignore unmanaged models (unlike syncdb)