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Performing migrations

Introduction

This document is intended to developers.

Migrations on Tracim lays on alembic which is the migration tool dedicated to SQLAlchemy.

In order to use the tracimcli commands, go to the root of the project and and active the Tracim virtualenv:

user@host:~/tracim_backend$ source env/bin/activate
(env) user@host:~/tracim_backend$

Migration howto - Overview

Upgrading schema to last revision

alembic -c development.ini upgrade head

Downgrading schema

alembic -c development.ini downgrade -1

Migration howto - Advanced (for developers)

Retrieving schema current version

alembic -c development.ini current

Creating new schema migration

This creates a new auto-generated python migration file in tracim_backend/migration/versions/ ending by migration_label.py:

alembic -c development.ini revision --autogenerate -m "migration label"