diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
index b9d320cec7..ed4a2dd5db 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/__init__.py
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class CLI(object):
 
         if inventory_opts:
             parser.add_option('-i', '--inventory-file', dest='inventory',
-                help="specify inventory host path (default=%s) or comma separated host list" % C.DEFAULT_HOST_LIST,
+                help="specify inventory host path (default=%s) or comma separated host list." % C.DEFAULT_HOST_LIST,
                 default=C.DEFAULT_HOST_LIST, action="callback", callback=CLI.expand_tilde, type=str)
             parser.add_option('--list-hosts', dest='listhosts', action='store_true',
                 help='outputs a list of matching hosts; does not execute anything else')
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/pull.py b/lib/ansible/cli/pull.py
index e099555f3e..f9a131be43 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/pull.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/pull.py
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ class PullCLI(CLI):
             help='verify GPG signature of checked out commit, if it fails abort running the playbook.'
                  ' This needs the corresponding VCS module to support such an operation')
 
+        # for pull we don't wan't a default
+        self.parser.set_defaults(inventory=None)
+
         self.options, self.args = self.parser.parse_args(self.args[1:])
 
         if not self.options.dest:
@@ -136,8 +139,8 @@ class PullCLI(CLI):
             base_opts += ' -%s' % ''.join([ "v" for x in range(0, self.options.verbosity) ])
 
         # Attempt to use the inventory passed in as an argument
-        # It might not yet have been downloaded so use localhost if note
-        if not self.options.inventory or not os.path.exists(self.options.inventory):
+        # It might not yet have been downloaded so use localhost as default
+        if not self.options.inventory or ( ',' not in self.options.inventory and not os.path.exists(self.options.inventory)):
             inv_opts = 'localhost,'
         else:
             inv_opts = self.options.inventory
@@ -166,7 +169,7 @@ class PullCLI(CLI):
 
         bin_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]))
         # hardcode local and inventory/host as this is just meant to fetch the repo
-        cmd = '%s/ansible -i "localhost," -c local %s -m %s -a "%s" all' % (bin_path, base_opts, self.options.module_name, repo_opts)
+        cmd = '%s/ansible -i "%s" %s -m %s -a "%s" all -l "%s"' % (bin_path, inv_opts, base_opts, self.options.module_name, repo_opts, limit_opts)
 
         for ev in self.options.extra_vars:
             cmd += ' -e "%s"' % ev
@@ -208,6 +211,8 @@ class PullCLI(CLI):
             cmd += ' -t "%s"' % self.options.tags
         if self.options.subset:
             cmd += ' -l "%s"' % self.options.subset
+        else:
+            cmd += ' -l "%s"' % limit_opts
 
         os.chdir(self.options.dest)