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| author |  ccalvarin <ccalvarin@google.com> | 2018-06-14 09:56:29 -0700 |
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| committer |  Copybara-Service <copybara-piper@google.com> | 2018-06-14 09:57:49 -0700 |
| commit | 654c77c603c039142d8b257f47bdaf14ac507c47 (patch) | |
| tree | 35dcaa88c0570c9d1ca11b8a8c5a96be3ab03f35 /site/docs | |
| parent | d564d98ab8310d6f3c49688a021c83031760d0cc (diff) | |
Remove fixed point config expansion.
Deprecates the flag, though it continues to exist as a no-op so that users get a warning before errors.
RELNOTES: --noexpand_configs_in_place is deprecated.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 200572053
Diffstat (limited to 'site/docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | site/docs/user-manual.html | 11 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/site/docs/user-manual.html b/site/docs/user-manual.html index bdd5cfc1a0..84c963c906 100644 --- a/site/docs/user-manual.html +++ b/site/docs/user-manual.html @@ -262,16 +262,9 @@ title: User Manual with an underscore ('_') to avoid unintentional name sharing. </p> <p> - The expansion behavior for these <code>--config=foo</code> options has - changed. The legacy behavior, still the default, is to expand these in a - fixed point expansion after all default rc options are loaded. This is - unintuitive and has caused debugging difficulties in the past. The new - behavior is to expand <code>--config=foo</code> to the options it expands to + <code>--config=foo</code> expands to the options defined in the rc files "in-place" so that the options specified for the config have the same - precedence that the <code>--config=foo</code> option had. This is more - intuitive, and can be enabled using the startup flag - <code>--expand_configs_in_place</code>, which can be included in a bazelrc - file on a <code>startup</code> line. + precedence that the <code>--config=foo</code> option had. </p> <h5>Example</h5> |