Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [off-list ref] writes:

This is a proposed replacement for Junio's version of the
... the
root cause is that we're needlessly doing the config->cli parsing in
the wrong order, so let's just fix that.

Yup, that's absolutely the right approach.  I just wanted to avoid
restructuring that heavily, but I have no problem as long as it is
somebody else, and somebody who is more competent in writing Perl
than I am, doing the heavy lifting ;-)