Fixed #23302 -- Added --name/-n option to makemigrations command

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/migrations.txt b/docs/topics/migrations.txt
index cd03a2f840..626790183b 100755..100644
--- a/docs/topics/migrations.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/migrations.txt
@@ -309,6 +309,13 @@ Note that this only works given two things:
   that your database doesn't match your models, you'll just get errors when
   migrations try to modify those tables.
 
+.. versionadded:: 1.8
+
+If you want to give the migration(s) a meaningful name instead of a generated one,
+you can use the :djadminopt:`--name` option::
+
+    $ python manage.py makemigrations --name changed_my_model your_app_label
+
 .. _historical-models:
 
 Historical models