Check for pending Django migrations

Shell

The only simple solution I've found so far is running

./manage.py showmigrations | grep '\[ \]'

which will output an empty string in case all migrations have been applied.

However, it is closely tied to the output format.

Python

I checked the source code of migrate command and it seems like this should do the trick:

from django.db.migrations.executor import MigrationExecutorfrom django.db import connections, DEFAULT_DB_ALIASdef is_database_synchronized(database):    connection = connections[database]    connection.prepare_database()    executor = MigrationExecutor(connection)    targets = executor.loader.graph.leaf_nodes()    return not executor.migration_plan(targets)# Usage example.if is_database_synchronized(DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS):    # All migrations have been applied.    passelse:    # Unapplied migrations found.    pass

1.10 release notes:

The new makemigrations --check option makes the command exit with a non-zero status when model changes without migrations are detected.

If you don't want to create the migrations, combine it with --dry-run:

python manage.py makemigrations --check --dry-run

Note that this doesn't check whether the migrations were applied, it only checks whether the migration files were created.

Try,

python manage.py migrate --list | grep "\[ \]\|^[a-z]" | grep "[ ]" -B 1

returns,

<app_1> [ ] 0001_initial [ ] 0002_auto_01201244 [ ] 0003_auto_12334333<app_2> [ ] 0031_auto_12344544 [ ] 0032_auto_45456767 [ ] 0033_auto_23346566<app_3> [ ] 0008_auto_3446677

Update:

If you have updated Django version >= 1.11, use below command,

python manage.py showmigrations | grep '\[ \]\|^[a-z]' | grep '[  ]' -B 1