In its current form, Play does not have a built-in mechanism to control the evolution process. Either he succeeds completely or fails. If your application works, then all changes have been applied
Depending on your use case, you have several options. The most flexible is simply not to use the playback evolution platform and apply database evolution with custom code in a global object using plain-ol 'JDBC. At about the same lines, you can implement a custom Play plugin that applies your evolutions.
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