Hey everybody, I’m juuuust starting to dig into meltano and it seems really cool. That being said, I have some very basic Qs as I set up, so thanks for your patience. Once I set up a new project, can I make changes directly in meltano.yml, or should I do everything through the CLI? If yes, are there limitations? ie. I can make config changes but not name namespace changes?

I’ve done both, I recommend using CLI whenever possible IMO. I found myself editing the wrong config file once, etc the meltano project folder has a lot of files so

ah okay. I am only seeing config settings go to meltano.yml but I haven’t even tried an extract, so I’ll keep an eye out. Thank you!

@steven_weinstein You can definitely make changes directly to

meltano.yml

, but using the

meltano

CLI is often more convenient. In the end, the CLI just reads/writes from/to

meltano.yml

though, and that's the full definition of your project that you'd check into version control.