To defer or to clone, that is the question
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Hi all, I’m Kshitij, a senior software engineer on the Core team at dbt Labs.
One of the coolest moments of my career here thus far has been shipping the new dbt clone command as part of the dbt-core v1.6 release.
However, one of the questions I’ve received most frequently is guidance around “when” to clone that goes beyond the documentation on “how” to clone. In this blog post, I’ll attempt to provide this guidance by answering these FAQs:
- What is
dbt clone? - How is it different from deferral?
- Should I defer or should I clone?