There's nothing stopping you from hand-writing Django migrations if you choose. Django compares the state of the models to the state of the database after all m

There's nothing stopping you from hand-writing Django migrations if you choose. Django compares the state of the models to the state of the database after all migrations have been run to determine if new migrations are necessary, so as long as you've covered all of your model changes in your hand-rolled migration you'll be fine.