Rollback a Specific Migration in laravel 12
Von itstuffsolutiotions.io vom 2025-07-24 15:58:39<p>In this article titled <strong>“Laravel 12: How to Rollback a Specific Migration”</strong>, I’ll guide you through the process of rolling back a particular migration in a Laravel 12 application — explained step by step with a practical example. The method shown here is also compatible with earlier Laravel versions including Laravel 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.</p>
<p>In this guide, you'll discover how to:</p>
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<ul>
<li><strong>Rollback </strong>a specific migration file</li>
<li><strong>Re-run </strong>a selected migration after rollback</li>
<li>Rollback a specific migration and run database <strong>seeding</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2>Rollback a Specific Migration</h2>
<p>Rather than executing a full<strong> migrate:rollback</strong>—which reverts the entire last batch of migrations (potentially affecting multiple files)—Laravel provides a way to <strong>rollback </strong>just one specific migration by using the<strong> --path </strong>option.</p>
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<code>php artisan migrate:rollback-- path=database/migrations/2025_07_14_134057_create_tests_table.php</code></pre>
<p>🔔<strong> Important:</strong> Ensure there is no space between --path= and the migration file path. Adding a space will result in a command <strong>error</strong>.</p>
<h2>Rollback a Specific Migration And Re-Migrate</h2>
<p>There are situations where you might need to rollback and instantly re-run a specific migration—such as after correcting a mistake or updating the table schema.</p>
<p>Laravel makes this easy by allowing the use of the <strong>--path</strong> option with the <strong>migrate:refresh</strong> command to target a specific migration file.</p>
