i guess i'm stuck at a big problem.
i had to delete the migrations directory in my django app and i thought when i run python manage.py makemigrations the directory will be created back, however i got an error
django.db.migrations.graph.NodeNotFoundError: Migration shoppingcart.0001_initial dependencies reference nonexistent parent node (u'student', u'0001_initial')
what i did after is recreate the migrations directory and put inside all the migrations files and run makemigrations but i'm having another error
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/common/djangoapps/student/migrations/0007_auto_20170427_1816.py'
I have seen this permission denied issue a few different times. These steps have helped me in the past:
Make sure you have a blank __init__.py file in your migrations directory
Make sure you you grant correct permissions on the directory, something like sudo chown <dir_name>