On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> Don't override arguments set via options with positional arguments.
>
> A number of utility programs were rather careless about paremeters
> that can be set via both an option argument and a positional
> argument. This leads to results which can violate the Principal
> Of Least Astonishment. These changes refuse to use positional
> arguments to override settings that have been made via positional
> arguments. The changes are backpatched to all live branches.
>
> Branch
> ------
> REL8_3_STABLE
Uh, isn't it kind of a bad idea to back-patch something like this? It
seems like a behavior change.
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