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- Add ``--log-file-mode`` option to the logging plugin, enabling appending to log-files. This option accepts either "w" or "a" and defaults to "w".
+Add ``--log-file-mode`` option to the logging plugin, enabling appending to log-files. This option accepts either "w" or "a" and defaults to "w".
 
 Previously, the mode was hard-coded to be "w" which truncates the file before logging.