arg. it feels so wrong to completely change the way parameters work in a script I've been using for years.

but the defaults are basically all backwards, from how I want to use it today, so I need the new default to be the inverse, with these flags doing the opposite of what they do now

and even though the only user that this will confuse and annoy is me, it still seems like an asshole move from a software maintenance perspective.

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@foone Maybe you can make it read parameters from a file? The convention for that is usually @file Then you can set the defaults in that file, and override the arguments you want changed by specifying them again in the command.

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