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Fixed #11047 -- Clarified the explanation of arguments to GenericForeignKey. Thanks to psmith and timo for their work on the patch. 

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@ -324,15 +324,19 @@ same types of lookups manually::
... object_id=b.id)
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Note that if the model with a :class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericForeignKey`
that you're referring to uses a non-default value for ``ct_field`` or ``fk_field``
(e.g. the :mod:`django.contrib.comments` app uses ``ct_field="object_pk"``),
you'll need to pass ``content_type_field`` and ``object_id_field`` to
:class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericRelation`.::
Note that if the model in a
:class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericRelation` uses a
non-default value for ``ct_field`` or ``fk_field`` in its
:class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericForeignKey` (e.g. the
:mod:`django.contrib.comments` app uses ``ct_field="object_pk"``),
you'll need to set ``content_type_field`` and/or ``object_id_field`` in
the :class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericRelation` to
match the ``ct_field`` and ``fk_field``, respectively, in the
:class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericForeignKey`::
comments = generic.GenericRelation(Comment, content_type_field="content_type", object_id_field="object_pk")
comments = generic.GenericRelation(Comment, object_id_field="object_pk")
Note that if you delete an object that has a
Note also, that if you delete an object that has a
:class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericRelation`, any objects
which have a :class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.generic.GenericForeignKey`
pointing at it will be deleted as well. In the example above, this means that