From c6455c77ab90910bf4c03005fb0a7dfe785e7087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:54:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention change to option parsing behavior in release notes --- doc/release-notes.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 7480a7cd2..db6c28972 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ Low-level RPC API changes advantage if a JSON library insists on using a lossy floating point type for numbers, which would be dangerous for monetary amounts. +Option parsing behavior +----------------------- + +Command line options are now parsed strictly in the order in which they are +specified. It used to be the case that `-X -noX` ends up, unintuitively, with X +set, as `-X` had precedence over `-noX`. This is no longer the case. Like for +other software, the last specified value for an option will hold. + 0.12.0 Change log =================