This Django management command deletes all migration records from the django_migrations table, and recreates a fake initial migration record. This can be helpful for resetting the migration history during development.

resetmigrations.py

"""
This Django management command deletes all migration records from the django_migrations table,
and recreates a fake initial migration record.

Usage:
    python manage.py resetmigrations --database=<database_name>
"""

from django.core import management
from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandParser
from django.db import DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS, connections, transaction
from django.db.migrations.recorder import MigrationRecorder


class Command(BaseCommand):
    help = "Deletes all migration records from the django_migrations table, and recreates a fake initial migration record."

    output_transaction = True

    def add_arguments(self, parser: CommandParser) -> None:
        super().add_arguments(parser)
        parser.add_argument(
            "--database",
            default=DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS,
        )

    def handle(self, *args, **options) -> None:
        self.selected_database = options["database"]
        self.verbosity = options["verbosity"]

        if self.verbosity > 0:
            self.stdout.write("Resetting migrations...")

        try:
            with transaction.atomic(using=self.selected_database):
                self._print_migration_status("Print current migration status")

                if self.verbosity > 0:
                    self.stdout.write("Flushes all migrations...")

                MigrationRecorder(
                    connection=connections[self.selected_database],
                ).flush()

                self._print_migration_status("Print current migration status - should be empty")

                if self.verbosity > 0:
                    self.stdout.write("Recreate fake initial migration")

                management.call_command("migrate", fake=True, verbosity=self.verbosity, database=self.selected_database)

                self._print_migration_status("Print current migration status - should have the fake initial migration")

            if self.verbosity > 0:
                self.stdout.write(self.style.SUCCESS("Done!"))

        except Exception as e:
            if self.verbosity > 0:
                self.stdout.write(self.style.ERROR(f"An error occurred: {e}"))

    def _print_migration_status(self, message: str) -> None:
        if self.verbosity > 1:
            self.stdout.write(message)
            management.call_command("showmigrations", database=self.selected_database)

If you want to just run the changes without all this complexity:

from django.core import management
from django.db import connection
from django.db.migrations.recorder import MigrationRecorder

MigrationRecorder(connection=connection).flush()
management.call_command("migrate", fake=True)

@lena fyi