Allow hosts not in inventory to override inventory with -i "host1,host2:port" etc, which is the original intent

of --override-hosts.

lib/ansible/inventory.py

@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ class Inventory(object):
         # whether the inventory file is a script
         self._is_script = False
 
+        if type(host_list) in [ str, unicode ]:
+            if host_list.find(",") != -1:
+               host_list = host_list.split(",")
+
         if type(host_list) == list:
             all = Group('all')
             self.groups = [ all ]