From e060b060817e72fc0559ea6c8e8e28b98aea191e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 23:26:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow hosts not in inventory to override inventory with -i
 "host1,host2:port" etc, which is the original intent of --override-hosts.

---
 lib/ansible/inventory.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory.py b/lib/ansible/inventory.py
index c796b9c9ef7..09c23bb0fed 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory.py
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ class Inventory(object):
         # whether the inventory file is a script
         self._is_script = False
 
+        if type(host_list) in [ str, unicode ]:
+            if host_list.find(",") != -1:
+               host_list = host_list.split(",")
+
         if type(host_list) == list:
             all = Group('all')
             self.groups = [ all ]