Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

All the rest are things where the command-line should simply override
the config values, and by reading the config first the config code
doesn't need all this "let's not set it was on the command-line"

ECANTPARSE "let's not set it was on the command-line"

I took it as "let's not set it, if it was on the command-line".