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authorPaolo Melchiorre <paolo@melchiorre.org>2021-01-12 15:47:58 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-01-12 15:47:58 +0100
commitc412d9af7e4121f6979758312c9426fa6893e9b7 (patch)
tree0b35bb655ee53973ff690e4e230a3f458db41408 /docs
parentba31b0103442ac891fb3cb98f316781254e366c3 (diff)
Fixed #32291 -- Added fixtures compression support to dumpdata.
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-rw-r--r--docs/ref/django-admin.txt11
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/3.2.txt3
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index b2c885431f..c916ff96c8 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -364,6 +364,17 @@ standard output.
When this option is set and ``--verbosity`` is greater than 0 (the default), a
progress bar is shown in the terminal.
+Fixtures compression
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. versionadded:: 3.2
+
+The output file can be compressed with one of the ``bz2``, ``gz``, ``lzma``, or
+``xz`` formats by ending the filename with the corresponding extension.
+For example, to output the data as a compressed JSON file::
+
+ django-admin dumpdata -o mydata.json.gz
+
``flush``
---------
diff --git a/docs/releases/3.2.txt b/docs/releases/3.2.txt
index 45f42bc214..8796419c62 100644
--- a/docs/releases/3.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/3.2.txt
@@ -338,6 +338,9 @@ Management Commands
* :djadmin:`loaddata` now supports fixtures stored in XZ archives (``.xz``) and
LZMA archives (``.lzma``).
+* :djadmin:`dumpdata` now can compress data in the ``bz2``, ``gz``, ``lzma``,
+ or ``xz`` formats.
+
* :djadmin:`makemigrations` can now be called without an active database
connection. In that case, check for a consistent migration history is
skipped.