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Clarify clear facts (#50667)

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* Revert "avoid x2 setting of set_fact when 'cacheable' (#50564)"

This reverts commit 207848f354.

* clarify clear_facts with set_fact cacheable

 revert previous 'fix' as it will break playbooks by changing precedence
 opted to leave current behaviour but document it on both plugins to mitigate confusion

 fixes #50556

 also fix grammer, add comment, remove unused e
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2019-01-15 15:20:33 -05:00
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@@ -1036,7 +1036,8 @@ Basically, anything that goes into "role defaults" (the defaults folder inside t
.. [1] Tasks in each role will see their own role's defaults. Tasks defined outside of a role will see the last role's defaults.
.. [2] Variables defined in inventory file or provided by dynamic inventory.
.. [3] Includes vars added by 'vars plugins' as well as host_vars and group_vars which are added by the default vars plugin shipped with Ansible.
.. [4] When created with set_facts's cacheable option.
.. [4] When created with set_facts's cacheable option, variables will have the high precedence in the play,
but will be the same as a host facts precedence when they come from the cache.
.. note:: Within any section, redefining a var will overwrite the previous instance.
If multiple groups have the same variable, the last one loaded wins.