saltstack/salt — pull request #5002 by davea (2013-05-13 09:20:39+00:00)
Title: Don't try and re-parse command line arguments in state.highstate

Since 0a87bb8, all command line arguments are parsed as YAML. Thus,
attempting to re-parse a kwarg value as YAML or JSON will fail.

I've updated salt.highstate and salt.sls so they don't try and re-parse their kwargs, meaning pillar data can be passed from the command line again.