add warning for disabled models

[macklin-fluehr]

Is this your first time submitting a feature request?

• I have read the expectations for open source contributors
• I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this feature
• I am requesting a straightforward extension of existing dbt functionality, rather than a Big Idea better suited to a discussion

Describe the feature

if you try to directly test a disabled model, you are presented with a generic error: Nothing to do. Try checking your model configs and model specification args.'

I think it's a good feature to ignore disabled models completely when selecting multiple nodes in the dag. However, if I directly select a model, let's say for a dbt test -s my_model, I should not receive the generic error, but should receive a warning that this model is specifically disabled.

Describe alternatives you've considered

this is a 0-1 feature to me. the only workaround is pure brute-force trying to figure out if disabling the model is the reason nothing is happening

Who will this benefit?

anyone debugging code that is for some reason, has 'nothing to do'.

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

No response

Anything else?

No response

[dbeatty10]

Thanks for opening this issue @macklin-fluehr 💡

Good news: great minds think alike and we recently merged #9863 with an update to this warning message.

I'm closing this is a duplicate of #9747, but please let us know if you think the new error message won't work for some reason.

[macklin-fluehr]

oh, awesome. I did not see this ticket merged, but thanks for pointing it out! I think the hint of 'enabled' is enough to point someone in the right direction. Thanks!

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