Commit 4123f55c authored by Greg Chapple's avatar Greg Chapple
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Added link to data migrations in initial data deprecation note

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@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Automatically loading initial data fixtures
    If an application uses migrations, there is no automatic loading of
    fixtures. Since migrations will be required for applications in Django 2.0,
    this behavior is considered deprecated. If you want to load initial data
    for an app, consider doing it in a migration.
    for an app, consider doing it in a :ref:`data migration <data-migrations>`.

If you create a fixture named ``initial_data.[xml/yaml/json]``, that fixture will
be loaded every time you run :djadmin:`migrate`. This is extremely convenient,
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ Providing initial SQL data
    If an application uses migrations, there is no loading of initial SQL data
    (including backend-specific SQL data). Since migrations will be required
    for applications in Django 2.0, this behavior is considered deprecated.
    If you want to use initial SQL for an app, consider doing it in a migration.
    If you want to use initial SQL for an app, consider doing it in a
    :ref:`data migration <data-migrations>`.

Django provides a hook for passing the database arbitrary SQL that's executed
just after the CREATE TABLE statements when you run :djadmin:`migrate`. You can