<p dir="auto">I found --start-at-task one of the most useful features for debugging late-in-playbook tasks.</p>
<p dir="auto">ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml --start-at-task="Name of a task"</p>
<p dir="auto">Previously this worked (though you had to take care you used the full phrase with no spelling errors").<br>
Now, it always just skips over all tasks starting at the named task.</p>
<p dir="auto">Has there been a change in how this feature works?</p>
<p dir="auto">I just pulled the latest from github (oct 10th), and see the same behavior.</p>
<p dir="auto">I can reproduce this on any task in my playbook.</p>
<p dir="auto">kesten</p>
<p dir="auto">Simple test case:</p>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="# file: playbook.yml

---
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
  connection: local
  roles:
    - test"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate"># file: playbook.yml

---
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
  connection: local
  roles:
    - test
</code></pre></div>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="# file: roles/test/tasks/main.yml

---
- name: foo
  debug: msg=foo"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate"># file: roles/test/tasks/main.yml

---
- name: foo
  debug: msg=foo
</code></pre></div>
<div class="snippet-clipboard-content notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml --start-at-task='foo'
PLAY [127.0.0.1] *************************

GATHERING FACTS **************************
ok: [127.0.0.1]

PLAY RECAP *******************************
127.0.0.1    : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0"><pre class="notranslate"><code class="notranslate">$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml --start-at-task='foo'
PLAY [127.0.0.1] *************************

GATHERING FACTS **************************
ok: [127.0.0.1]

PLAY RECAP *******************************
127.0.0.1    : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0
</code></pre></div>