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Clarifying zero copy cloning #5299

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The `dbt clone` command clones selected nodes from the [specified state](/reference/node-selection/syntax#establishing-state) to the target schema(s). This command makes use of the `clone` materialization:
- If your data platform supports zero-copy cloning of tables, and this model exists as a table in the source environment, dbt will create it in your target environment as a clone
- If your data platform supports zero-copy cloning of tables(Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery), and this model exists as a table in the source environment, dbt will create it in your target environment as a clone
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- Otherwise, dbt will create a simple pointer view (`select * from` the source object)
- By default, `dbt clone` will not recreate pre-existing relations in the current target. To override this, use the `--full-refresh` flag.
- You may want to specify a higher number of [threads](/docs/running-a-dbt-project/using-threads) to decrease execution time since individual clone statements are independent of one another.
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