dbt docs generate --exclude not working and doesn't exclude the models based on tags.

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The problem I’m having

running the docs generate command for commercial environment like “#dbt docs generate --target --exclude tag:” is still trying to access the excluded models tag with ‘dev-only’

The context of why I’m trying to do this

So, we have separate environments like dev and prod and want to run the generate command for a single environment only

What I’ve already tried

just tried the --exclude option

Some example code or error messages

Building catalog
 Encountered an error while generating catalog: Database Error
  002003 (02000): SQL compilation error:
  Database '<DB_NAME_1>' does not exist or not authorized.
  Encountered an error while generating catalog: Database Error
  002003 (02000): SQL compilation error:
  Database '<DB_NAME_2>' does not exist or not authorized.
/home/github/_work/_temp/.sh: line 3:  2745 Killed                  dbt docs generate --target prod --exclude tag:frh-only
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Hi @shantanu.panda, at present dbt docs generate only captures the entire project; --exclude isn’t taken into account.

I would encourage you to weigh in on this discussion thread: Make it possible to generate a DBT docs subset · Discussion #5096 · dbt-labs/dbt-core · GitHub

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I believe docs generate does take account of --select /--exclude , but only for compilation! It doesn’t respect selection criteria for actual catalog generation .

That’s this issue (in addition to the one Joel linked above):

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