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@@ -538,6 +538,12 @@ the `--list` flag that's only present on particular actions. Similarly with
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`progress` and `--progress`, `statistics` and `--stats`, and `match_archives`
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and `--match-archives`.
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+Also note that if you want to pass a command-line flag itself as a value to one
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+of these override flags, that may not work. For instance, specifying
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+`--extra-borg-options.create --no-cache-sync` results in an error, because
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+`--no-cache-sync` gets interpreted as a borgmatic option (which in this case
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+doesn't exist) rather than a Borg option.
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An alternate to command-line overrides is passing in your values via
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[environment
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variables](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/docs/how-to/provide-your-passwords/).
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