Add vcs-load-dirs project to thirdparty directory.
vcs-load-dirs project contains load-dir scripts for different version control sysystems including git, hg, darcs, bazaar.
More information about the project:
http://software.complete.org/software/wiki/vcs-load-dirs/
http://software.complete.org/static/vcs-load-dirs/doc//hg_load_dirs.1.html
from django.db.backends import BaseDatabaseValidation
class DatabaseValidation(BaseDatabaseValidation):
def validate_field(self, errors, opts, f):
"Prior to MySQL 5.0.3, character fields could not exceed 255 characters"
from django.db import models
from django.db import connection
db_version = connection.get_server_version()
if db_version < (5, 0, 3) and isinstance(f, (models.CharField, models.CommaSeparatedIntegerField, models.SlugField)) and f.max_length > 255:
errors.add(opts,
'"%s": %s cannot have a "max_length" greater than 255 when you are using a version of MySQL prior to 5.0.3 (you are using %s).' %
(f.name, f.__class__.__name__, '.'.join([str(n) for n in db_version[:3]])))