Docs tweaks (thanks timgraham)

4 files changed, 28 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index ab83e2cf33..27b68e4f1c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -575,20 +575,22 @@ makemigrations [<appname>]
 
 .. django-admin:: makemigrations
 
+.. versionadded:: 1.7
+
 Creates new migrations based on the changes detected to your models.
 Migrations, their relationship with apps and more are covered in depth in
 :doc:`the migrations documentation</topics/migrations>`.
 
 Providing one or more app names as arguments will limit the migrations created
-to the app specified and any dependencies needed (the table at the other end
-of a ForeignKey, for example)
+to the app(s) specified and any dependencies needed (the table at the other end
+of a ``ForeignKey``, for example).
 
 .. django-admin-option:: --empty
 
 The ``--empty`` option will cause ``makemigrations`` to output an empty
 migration for the specified apps, for manual editing. This option is only
 for advanced users and should not be used unless you are familiar with
-the migration format, migration operations and the dependencies between
+the migration format, migration operations, and the dependencies between
 your migrations.
 
 migrate [<appname> [<migrationname>]]
@@ -596,11 +598,13 @@ migrate [<appname> [<migrationname>]]
 
 .. django-admin:: migrate
 
-Synchronises the database state with the current set of models and migrations.
+.. versionadded:: 1.7
+
+Synchronizes the database state with the current set of models and migrations.
 Migrations, their relationship with apps and more are covered in depth in
 :doc:`the migrations documentation</topics/migrations>`.
 
-The behaviour of this command changes depending on the arguments provided:
+The behavior of this command changes depending on the arguments provided:
 
 * No arguments: All migrated apps have all of their migrations run,
   and all unmigrated apps are synchronized with the database,
diff --git a/docs/ref/signals.txt b/docs/ref/signals.txt
index b988371aa7..ca1668000c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/signals.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/signals.txt
@@ -403,7 +403,6 @@ Arguments sent with this signal:
 ``db``
     The alias of database on which a command will operate.
 
-
 pre_syncdb
 ----------
 
@@ -421,7 +420,6 @@ is present, for backwards-compatability this signal has an extra argument it sen
     A list of the model classes from any app which :djadmin:`migrate` is
     going to create, **only if the app has no migrations**.
 
-
 post_migrate
 ------------
 
@@ -479,7 +477,6 @@ For example, ``yourapp/management/__init__.py`` could be written like::
 
     post_migrate.connect(my_callback, sender=yourapp.models)
 
-
 post_syncdb
 -----------
 
@@ -497,8 +494,6 @@ is present, for backwards-compatability this signal has an extra argument it sen
     A list of the model classes from any app which :djadmin:`migrate` has
     created, **only if the app has no migrations**.
 
-
-
 Request/response signals
 ========================
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
index c20a278496..3b1fe0c40e 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
@@ -33,15 +33,16 @@ What's new in Django 1.7
 Schema migrations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Django now has built-in support for schema migrations, which allows models
-to be updated, changed and deleted and the changes stored into migration files
-and then run on any deployed database.
+Django now has built-in support for schema migrations. It allows models
+to be updated, changed, and deleted by creating migration files that represent
+the model changes and which can be run on any development, staging or production
+database.
 
 Migrations are covered in :doc:`their own documentation</topics/migrations>`,
 but a few of the key features are:
 
 * ``syncdb`` has been deprecated and replaced by ``migrate``. Don't worry - 
-   calls to ``syncdb`` will still work as before.
+  calls to ``syncdb`` will still work as before.
 
 * A new ``makemigrations`` command provides an easy way to autodetect changes
   to your models and make migrations for them.
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ but a few of the key features are:
 New method on Field subclasses
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-To help power both schema migrations and composite keys, the Field API now
+To help power both schema migrations and composite keys, the :class:`~django.db.models.Field` API now
 has a new required method: ``deconstruct()``.
 
 This method takes no arguments, and returns a tuple of four items:
@@ -278,3 +279,10 @@ work until Django 1.9.
 it will go through a regular deprecation path. This attribute was mostly used
 by methods that bypassed ``ModelAdmin.get_fieldsets()`` but this was considered
 a bug and has been addressed.
+
+``syncdb``
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The ``syncdb`` command has been deprecated in favour of the new ``migrate``
+command. ``migrate`` takes the same arguments as ``syncdb`` used to plus a few
+more, so it's safe to just change the name you're calling and nothing else.
diff --git a/docs/topics/migrations.txt b/docs/topics/migrations.txt
index 5f7def7107..5862c5defe 100644
--- a/docs/topics/migrations.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/migrations.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ The migration files for each app live in a "migrations" directory inside
 of that app, and are designed to be committed to, and distributed as part
 of, its codebase. You should be making them once on your development machine
 and then running the same migrations on your colleagues' machines, your
-staging machines and eventually your production machines.
+staging machines, and eventually your production machines.
 
 Migrations will run the same way every time and produce consistent results,
 meaning that what you see in development and staging is exactly what will
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Backend Support
 
 Migrations are supported on all backends that Django ships with, as well
 as any third-party backends if they have programmed in support for schema
-alteration (done via the SchemaEditor class).
+alteration (done via the ``SchemaEditor`` class).
 
 However, some databases are more capable than others when it comes to
 schema migrations; some of the caveats are covered below.
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ app - in the file, so it's possible to detect when there's two new migrations
 for the same app that aren't ordered.
 
 When this happens, Django will prompt you and give you some options. If it
-thinks it's safe enough, it will offer to automatically linearise the two
+thinks it's safe enough, it will offer to automatically linearize the two
 migrations for you. If not, you'll have to go in and modify the migrations
 yourself - don't worry, this isn't difficult, and is explained more in
 :ref:`migration-files` below.
@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ you add a ForeignKey in your ``books`` app to your ``authors`` app - the
 resulting migration will contain a dependency on a migration in ``authors``.
 
 This means that when you run the migrations, the ``authors`` migration runs
-first and creates the table the ForeignKey references, and then the migration
-that makes the ForeignKey column runs afterwards and creates the constraint.
+first and creates the table the ``ForeignKey`` references, and then the migration
+that makes the ``ForeignKey`` column runs afterwards and creates the constraint.
 If this didn't happen, the migration would try to create the ForeignKey column
 without the table it's referencing existing and your database would
 throw an error.
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Note that this only works given two things:
 
 * You have not manually edited your database - Django won't be able to detect
   that your database doesn't match your models, you'll just get errors when
-  migrations try and modify those tables.
+  migrations try to modify those tables.
 
 
 .. historical-models: