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35176	Renaming a field and other attributes result in deleting and recreating a new column.	Corentin Bettiol	nobody	"Hi all,
When renaming a field of a model in Django, one would expect the makemigration command to realize it should only rename the column in the db.

However, when also renaming the verbose_name, the makemigration command will create a migration file which will delete the column (and all the data it contains), and create a new column.

See the resulting migrations files generated for an example (new project named ""a"", new app named ""b"", a simple model containing 2 fields).

I think the makemigration command should handle this case by not deleting data, because we expect it to know that it only needs to rename the column."	New feature	closed	Migrations	4.2	Normal	wontfix	rename, renaming		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0