Hi @hkariti, I just tried this against devel and it appears fixed:

TASK: [debug var=var] ********************************************************* 
ok: [127.0.0.1] => {
    "var": "2"
}

I even backed up to a commit on Oct. 1st and it still worked, so I'm not quite sure what your issue might be.

Ok, this is working correctly for me too now. But I still think I'm not crazy. I managed to reproduce it again with the latest dev, but with inventory vars + regular vars and not vars_file:

inventory:

localhost ansible_connection=local
[all:vars]
var=1

playbook:

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    var2: "{{var}}"
  tasks:
    - debug: var=var2
    - debug: var=var

command:

ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml -e var=2

output:

TASK: [debug var=var2] ******************************************************** 
ok: [localhost] => {
    "var2": "1"
}

TASK: [debug var=var] ********************************************************* 
ok: [localhost] => {
    "var": "2"
}

Yeah that's an odd one, but should be easy to fix. Looking into this now.

Closing This Ticket

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