I recently made my first dbt-core open-source contribution! This contribution adds unmodified and old state selection methods to the dbt CLI. The main motivation is to make it easy to exclude late-binding views from our dbt job’s DAG, reducing the runtime overhead. You can see some details that precipitated this contribution here.
You can watch a short demo on the contribution below:
To take it for a spin yourself, you might run a command that excludes the intersection of views and unchanged models from the DAG:
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If you end up using this feature extension, I’d love to hear from you! When I worked on this, I did it entirely inspired by the late-binding view use-case, but I’d be curious to hear how you put it to use in your dbt jobs. As always, reach out to me via tyler [at] tylerrouze.com or comment below!