Re: Migrating old users into custom user model

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Hi Ben,

On 08/25/2015 05:14 PM, Ben Wattie wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> If I figure it out I would surely submit doc, but it's more likely that
> I will just come up with a workaround.

Fair enough :-)

> Starting a project with a custom user model every time just to avoid
> this doesn't feel so great since the documentation just says things like
> "probably don't use a custom user model, even though its supported, use
> 1-1 profile instead"
> But then later on the track requirements can change and you need a
> custom model but its very difficult to migrate.

And that's why the docs are simply wrong when they say that, and should
be changed. See https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24370

Carl

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