Tracking changes to all models in Django

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  • django-reversion

    django-reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides version control for model instances.

  • I tried django-reversion, django-simple-history, django-audit-log, django-historicalrecords, but I fail to understand how and why I should use each of these packages as some of them seem like an overkill for the requirements. So, after two days of searching and reading through numerous posts about how I should be tracking model changes, I have basically done nothing.

  • django-simple-history

    Discontinued Store model history and view/revert changes from admin site. [Moved to: https://github.com/jazzband/django-simple-history] (by treyhunner)

  • I tried django-reversion, django-simple-history, django-audit-log, django-historicalrecords, but I fail to understand how and why I should use each of these packages as some of them seem like an overkill for the requirements. So, after two days of searching and reading through numerous posts about how I should be tracking model changes, I have basically done nothing.

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  • django-auditlog

    Discontinued A Django app that keeps a log of changes made to an object. [Moved to: https://github.com/jazzband/django-auditlog] (by jjkester)

  • I tried django-reversion, django-simple-history, django-audit-log, django-historicalrecords, but I fail to understand how and why I should use each of these packages as some of them seem like an overkill for the requirements. So, after two days of searching and reading through numerous posts about how I should be tracking model changes, I have basically done nothing.

  • django-historicalrecords

    Automatic shadow table of django model instances

  • I tried django-reversion, django-simple-history, django-audit-log, django-historicalrecords, but I fail to understand how and why I should use each of these packages as some of them seem like an overkill for the requirements. So, after two days of searching and reading through numerous posts about how I should be tracking model changes, I have basically done nothing.

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