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While it's clear that --favor-state skips step 1, mentioning only "production metadata" without addressing staging metadata could be misleading.
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marcelobour authored Dec 12, 2024
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2. If a development version doesn't exist, dbt uses the staging locations of parent relations based on metadata from the staging environment.
3. If both a development and staging version doesn't exist, dbt uses the production locations of parent relations based on metadata from the production environment.

**Note:** Passing the `--favor-state` flag will always resolve refs using production metadata, regardless of the presence of a development relation, skipping step #1.
**Note:** Passing the `--favor-state` flag will always resolve refs using staging metadaba if it exists, else production metadata, regardless of the presence of a development relation, skipping step #1.

For a clean slate, it's a good practice to drop the development schema at the start and end of your development cycle.

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