diff --git a/website/snippets/_cloud-environments-info.md b/website/snippets/_cloud-environments-info.md index 6e096b83750..6b6eb1c2761 100644 --- a/website/snippets/_cloud-environments-info.md +++ b/website/snippets/_cloud-environments-info.md @@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ For improved reliability and performance on your job runs, you can enable dbt Cl dbt Cloud caches your project's Git repo after each successful run and retains it for 8 days if there are no repo updates. It caches all packages regardless of installation method and does not fetch code outside of the job runs. +dbt Cloud will use the cached copy of your project's Git repo under these circumstances: + +- Outages from third-party services (for example, the [dbt package hub](https://hub.getdbt.com/)). +- Git authentication fails. +- There are syntax errors in the `packages.yml` file. You can set up and use [continuous integration (CI)](/docs/deploy/continuous-integration) to find these errors sooner. +- If a package doesn't work with the current dbt version. You can set up and use [continuous integration (CI)](/docs/deploy/continuous-integration) to identify this issue sooner. + To enable Git repository caching, select **Account settings** from the gear menu and enable the **Repository caching** option.