[pxc]

I gave my best effort at a rationalization for what we see in OpenSSH, but in light of some of my misremembered peripheral details and your arguments here, I've changed my mind.

Sometimes you do want to set a baseline, and other times you do want to set a default. But using an unconventional ordering for overrides in your config file format isn't the right way to do anything.

Thanks for laying this out.

[wahern]

I suspect OpenSSH's precedence order might be a consequence of the semantics and syntax of the Host and Match directives. But I haven't looked into the history.