How to Remove a Migration in Laravel

I wanted to delete a laravel migration because I named it incorrectly so I had to follow the steps to rollback.

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I found this article on StackOverflow that showed me what to do to delete a migration

I accidentally created a migration with a bad name (command: php artisan migrate:make). I did not run (php artisan migrate) the migration, so I decided to remove it. My steps:

  1. Manually delete the migration file under app/database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php
  2. Reset the composer autoload files: composer dump-autoload
  3. Relax

If you did run the migration (php artisan migrate), you may do this:

a) Run migrate:rollback – it is the right way to undo the last migration (Thnx @Jakobud)

b) If migrate:rollback does not work, do it manually (I remember bugs with migrate:rollback in previous versions):

  1. Manually delete the migration file under app/database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php
  2. Reset the composer autoload files: composer dump-autoload
  3. Modify your database: Remove the last entry from the migrations table

Full Article: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16871413/safely-remove-migration-in-laravel