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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