Commit 5dc4a865 authored by Andrew Godwin's avatar Andrew Godwin
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Add an extra warning about custom save methods in migrations docs.

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@@ -298,6 +298,12 @@ models will not have any custom methods or managers that you have defined.
They will, however, have the same fields, relationships and ``Meta`` options
(also versioned, so they may be different from your current ones).

.. warning::

  This means that you will NOT have custom save() methods called on objects
  when you access them in migrations, and you will NOT have any custom constructors
  or instance methods. Plan appropriately!

In addition, the base classes of the model are just stored as pointers,
so you must always keep base classes around for as long as there is a migration
that contains a reference to them. On the plus side, methods and managers