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authorJack Scheible <jscheibl@redhat.com>2020-05-28 22:06:17 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-05-28 22:06:17 +0200
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Update intro_inventory.rst (#69718)
Vars in inventory are merged in ASCII order. Change docs to reflect that.
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@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ By default variables are merged/flattened to the specific host before a play is
- child group
- host
-By default Ansible merges groups at the same parent/child level alphabetically, and the last group loaded overwrites the previous groups. For example, an a_group will be merged with b_group and b_group vars that match will overwrite the ones in a_group.
+By default Ansible merges groups at the same parent/child level in ASCII order, and the last group loaded overwrites the previous groups. For example, an a_group will be merged with b_group and b_group vars that match will overwrite the ones in a_group.
You can change this behavior by setting the group variable ``ansible_group_priority`` to change the merge order for groups of the same level (after the parent/child order is resolved). The larger the number, the later it will be merged, giving it higher priority. This variable defaults to ``1`` if not set. For example:
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ You can target this inventory directory simply like this:
It can be useful to control the merging order of the inventory sources if there's variable
conflicts or group of groups dependencies to the other inventory sources. The inventories
-are merged in alphabetical order according to the filenames so the result can
+are merged in ASCII order according to the filenames so the result can
be controlled by adding prefixes to the files:
.. code-block:: text