if my custom tap is at $MELTANO_PROJECT_ROOT/taps/my-tap, can I reference that local custom tap directly in the

pip_url:

with something like

pip_url: .\taps\my-tap

or do I need to provide the full github url

Yes you can.

pip_url: -e .\taps\my-tap

should work in the scenario you gave.

awesome - thank you

That message shows even after running

meltano lock --update --all

?

after doing update all it fails too yeah (with just the first sentence)

Since I am on windows I use the backslashes and double them up. When I install my taps and targets from the local file system I set them up as custom plugins in the meltano.yml. https://docs.meltano.com/concepts/plugins#custom-plugins https://docs.meltano.com/guide/plugin-management/#custom-plugins https://docs.meltano.com/concepts/project/#custom-plugin-definitions Then run

meltano install --clean

after I make any code changes to the tap and/or target before I run any meltano commands.