Flag to fail on incorrect model name

[mgoldbas]

Describe the feature

Have a flag that will raise an error when passing models to dbt run and the model does not exist

Describe alternatives you've considered

• A test run that will check to see that the models you passed exist
• An additional script to check the models exist in DBT

Additional context

While passing several models to DBT, the engineer that builds the model may misspell the model. Thus the script will run, but there will be no indication that the model that is misspelled is missing or incorrect.

Who will this benefit?

Users running DBT in production environments

[drewbanin]

Hey @mgoldbas - good idea!

dbt currently supports a --warn-error flag that will cause warnings to be raised as errors. We can make dbt emit a warning if a model specified in the --models selector does not exist. I think that this new warning in conjunction with --warn-error might address your use case.

Do you think that would work?

[drewbanin]

closing in favor of #2115