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Fixed error logging to display errors in dbt ls
Add models flag
Make all of models, select, exclude have a metavar of 'SELECTOR' for -h

core/dbt/logger.py

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def notice(self, msg, *args, **kwargs):
 stdout_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(message)s'))
 stdout_handler.setLevel(NOTICE)
 
-stderr_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+stderr_handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)
 stderr_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(message)s'))
 stderr_handler.setLevel(WARNING)
 

core/dbt/main.py

@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ def main(args=None):
         exit_code = e.code
 
     except BaseException as e:
-        logger.info("Encountered an error:")
-        logger.info(str(e))
+        logger.warn("Encountered an error:")
+        logger.warn(str(e))
 
         if logger_initialized():
             logger.debug(traceback.format_exc())
@@ -592,13 +592,24 @@ def _build_list_subparser(subparsers, base_subparser):
         '--select',
         required=False,
         nargs='+',
+        metavar='SELECTOR',
         help="Specify the nodes to select.",
-        dest='models'
+    )
+    sub.add_argument(
+        '-m',
+        '--models',
+        required=False,
+        nargs='+',
+        metavar='SELECTOR',
+        help="Specify the models to select and set the resource-type to "
+              "'model'. Mutually exclusive with '--select' (or '-s') and "
+              "'--resource-type'",
     )
     sub.add_argument(
         '--exclude',
         required=False,
         nargs='+',
+        metavar='SELECTOR',
         help="Specify the models to exclude."
     )
     # in python 3.x you can use the 'aliases' kwarg, but in python 2.7 you get

core/dbt/task/list.py

@@ -33,7 +33,17 @@ class ListTask(GraphRunnableTask):
 
     def __init__(self, args, config):
         super(ListTask, self).__init__(args, config)
-        self.config.args.single_threaded = True
+        self.args.single_threaded = True
+        if self.args.models:
+            if self.args.select:
+                raise dbt.exceptions.RuntimeException(
+                    '"models" and "select" are mutually exclusive arguments'
+                )
+            if self.args.resource_types:
+                raise dbt.exceptions.RuntimeException(
+                    '"models" and "resource_type" are mutually exclusive '
+                    'arguments'
+                )
 
     @classmethod
     def pre_init_hook(cls):
@@ -96,6 +106,9 @@ def run(self):
 
     @property
     def resource_types(self):
+        if self.args.models:
+            return [NodeType.Model]
+
         values = set(self.config.args.resource_types)
         if not values:
             return list(self.DEFAULT_RESOURCE_VALUES)
@@ -108,9 +121,16 @@ def resource_types(self):
             values.update(self.ALL_RESOURCE_VALUES)
         return list(values)
 
+    @property
+    def selector(self):
+        if self.args.models:
+            return self.args.models
+        else:
+            return self.args.select
+
     def build_query(self):
         return {
-            "include": self.args.models,
+            "include": self.selector,
             "exclude": self.args.exclude,
             "resource_types": self.resource_types,
             "tags": [],