[2.1.x] Fixed #29469 -- Added a helpful makemigrations error if app_label contains dots.

Backport of 78972af367a1da54aa7e539e4b1ffa2b56571e77 from master

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py b/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py
index 14461418c1..1a166c6f99 100644
--- a/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py
+++ b/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py
@@ -73,7 +73,15 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
                 bad_app_labels.add(app_label)
         if bad_app_labels:
             for app_label in bad_app_labels:
-                self.stderr.write("App '%s' could not be found. Is it in INSTALLED_APPS?" % app_label)
+                if '.' in app_label:
+                    self.stderr.write(
+                        "'%s' is not a valid app label. Did you mean '%s'?" % (
+                            app_label,
+                            app_label.split('.')[-1],
+                        )
+                    )
+                else:
+                    self.stderr.write("App '%s' could not be found. Is it in INSTALLED_APPS?" % app_label)
             sys.exit(2)
 
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