From 4f9380c162ba8f2aa27be044c08a7289c066e0d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 0xRob <0xRobin5@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 10:31:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] base is_incremental

---
 macros/dune/is_incremental.sql | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 macros/dune/is_incremental.sql

diff --git a/macros/dune/is_incremental.sql b/macros/dune/is_incremental.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8ef6541901a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/macros/dune/is_incremental.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{% macro is_incremental() %}
+    {#-- do not run introspective queries in parsing #}
+    {% if not execute %}
+        {{ return(False) }}
+    {% else %}
+        {% set relation = adapter.get_relation(this.database, this.schema, this.table) %}
+        {{ return(relation is not none
+                  and relation.type == 'table'
+                  and model.config.materialized == 'incremental'
+                  and not should_full_refresh()) }}
+    {% endif %}
+{% endmacro %}

From b7a80b5e4c427adf803db3dd0647af0d0684c353 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 0xRob <0xRobin5@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 10:56:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add force-incremental variable

---
 macros/dune/is_incremental.sql |  6 ++++++
 macros/dune/macros_schema.yml  | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/macros/dune/is_incremental.sql b/macros/dune/is_incremental.sql
index 8ef6541901a..39cd360ec05 100644
--- a/macros/dune/is_incremental.sql
+++ b/macros/dune/is_incremental.sql
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 {% macro is_incremental() %}
+    {#-- allow for command line compile of incremental models  #}
+    {#-- Usage: dbt compile --vars '{force-incremental: True}'  #}
+    {% if var('force-incremental', False) %}
+        {{ return(True) }}
+    {% endif %}
+
     {#-- do not run introspective queries in parsing #}
     {% if not execute %}
         {{ return(False) }}
diff --git a/macros/dune/macros_schema.yml b/macros/dune/macros_schema.yml
index d3213da0d95..7870486a38a 100644
--- a/macros/dune/macros_schema.yml
+++ b/macros/dune/macros_schema.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ macros:
         description: "Custom schema name"
       - name: node
         type: column name or expression
-        description: "Node"  
+        description: "Node"
 
   - name: generate_alias_name
     description: "This overrides the dbt-core function for setting aliases. For PR test, the alias is set to the user schema and file name. "
@@ -38,4 +38,10 @@ macros:
 
   - name: spark__create_csv_table
     description: >
-      Same as create_table_as but for seeds with spark package
\ No newline at end of file
+      Same as create_table_as but for seeds with spark package
+
+  - name: is_incremental
+    description: >
+      Overrides the core is_incremental marco to allow the usage of a force-incremental command line variable.
+      This enables us to easily get the compiled incremental models. 
+      Example usage: dbt compile --vars '{force-incremental: True}'