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[1.5.x] Small generic FK docs tweaks.
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ramiro committed Feb 2, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ A normal :class:`~django.db.models.ForeignKey` can only "point
to" one other model, which means that if the ``TaggedItem`` model used a
:class:`~django.db.models.ForeignKey` it would have to
choose one and only one model to store tags for. The contenttypes
application provides a special field type which
application provides a special field type (``GenericForeignKey``) which
works around this and allows the relationship to be with any
model:

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:class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericForeignKey`:

1. Give your model a :class:`~django.db.models.ForeignKey`
to :class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType`.
to :class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType`. The usual
name for this field is "content_type".

2. Give your model a field that can store primary key values from the
models you'll be relating to. For most models, this means a
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