title: Django's Core Migrate Tool vs South for Django Data Migrations
body: <p>I'm not currently using migrations in my Django project but I intend to very soon. I understand that South is the de facto tool, and I was going to use that but then I read on the Django  project site that the development version (I guess to be released as 1.7) has a core migration tool, ran as <code>migrate</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Coming from very little experience using migration tools (I installed Django-CMS with South and played around with it for a day or so), which is the best one for a beginner?</p>
  
  <p>Also, since migration itself is pretty young, and Django's version even more so, would I be better off going with South this point?</p>
  
  <p>Finally, another question is if I start with South (most of my Django projects are v1.5), when I upgrade to 1.6 and then 1.7, will I have trouble converting to Django's core migration?</p>