hardhat-deploy: hardhat node task bug deploys to ropsten defaultNetwork

For ref see: https://github.com/nomiclabs/hardhat/issues/1139#issue-775939991

EDIT: copying over the bits relevant to hardhat-deploy :

Now the more serious bugs:

• defaultNetwork: “ropsten”
  • npx hardhat node

As you can see I am using hardhat-deploy which overrides the hardhat node task to run deploy scripts on start. I accidentally had my defaultNetwork: set to ropsten and somehow the hardhat node task did not fail and it deployed contracts to ropsten.

I would have expected hardhat node to fail with a Hardhat error similar to Error HH605: Unsupported network for JSON-RPC server.

This works when --network ropsten is passed as a flag:

But apparently not if the network is configured as defaultNetwork.

Either way the main issue:

When a defaultNetwork is configured hardhat-deploy seems to deploy all contracts to that network when invoking the hardhat node command in the terminal. Even worse, it bypassed all my deploy scripts skip functions for that defaultNetwork.