Enhancement: have a way to apply a patch of changes

[keevan]

Use case:

• Dataflow created
• Imported to a particular environment (e.g. production / test)
• Tweaks done locally
• Dataflow updated in the aforementioned environment.

This works fine, but if the dataflow has been modified moderately (e.g. adding more than 3 steps), perhaps tweaking paths for other steps, this can become error prone.

Ideally, there would be:

• a way to "patch" in the changes, probably after some confirmation,
• and/or selectively apply any changes for steps that were affected (e.g. if the local env have different config for connections).. but this is bells and whistles

In theory, even the most changed dataflow might have a process like:

• create datafloww
• import dataflow into some env
• tweak locally
• export local and apply patch to dataflow in env, selectively applying relevant changes

For now, the process would need to be something like:

• .... perform tweaks
• export both env and local dataflows
• compare diff
• apply changes manually (add steps, edit steps, remove steps, etc.)

[brendanheywood]

Isn't this more or less export as yaml, apply diffs there, import?