[cessor]

Your're right, I felt the same way in that the article is clickbaity.

I found that django's naming scheme for migrations is good enough; here are some real ones that I pulled out of my current project:

    migrations/0006_add_modeltranslation.py
    migrations/0007_remove_temp_fields.py
    migrations/0008_remove_language_field.py
    migrations/0009_alter_page_slug.py
    migrations/0010_alter_menuitem_absolute_url.py

While they aren't semantically rich ('Why did you change absolute url on menu item?') I found that they are easy to distinguish and navigate.

[yxhuvud]

My biggest objection to that naming scheme would be the numbering. If you have multiple people working on an app, it is likely that you at some point get multiples of a number as people add models simultaneously. What happens if there are multiples using a single number?

I much prefer the timestamp based system that is used by Rails, it make the risk of that kind of conflict a lot lower.

[Wilya]

The number-based scheme is a leftover from old times. I don't think they are actually used for ordering how the migrations are applied anymore.

The migration file will contain explicit dependency information, something like:

  dependencies = [
    ('app', '0010_alter_menuitem_absolute_url')
  ]

The migration engine will order the dependencies at runtime, and it will bail (and suggest creating a "merge" migration) if you have diverging trees of migrations. I find it pretty robust in practice.

[tzot]

> My biggest objection to that naming scheme would be the numbering. If you have multiple people working on an app, it is likely that you at some point get multiples of a number as people add models simultaneously. What happens if there are multiples using a single number?

We have this happen at work, when merging branches; this is what `./manage.py makemigrations --merge` exists for.

[Klonoar]

The only thing that annoys me to this day is that they have the numbers first. I get the logic why: it means they're ordered in the directory properly.

That said, it's very annoying in that they're not tab-completable... any time I have to edit one, I have to stop and hunt in the entire list for what I'm looking for.

[jmconfuzeus]

You pulled only the good ones. Where are the migrations named 0019_auto_20181224.py?

[MattGaiser]

"Why" is something very hard to programmically answer.