diff --git a/src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py b/src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py
index 2a3343b6b..1059218fa 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py
@@ -74,8 +74,10 @@ def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs) -> None:
         load_in_8bit=False,
         load_in_4bit=False,
         flash_attention=False,
+        sequence_parallel_degree=None,
         deepspeed=None,
         fsdp=None,
+        fsdp_config=None,
         **kwargs,
     )
 
@@ -86,13 +88,6 @@ def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs) -> None:
             f"Target directory for merge: `{parsed_cfg.lora_model_dir}` does not exist."
         )
 
-    parsed_cfg.load_in_4bit = False
-    parsed_cfg.load_in_8bit = False
-    parsed_cfg.flash_attention = False
-    parsed_cfg.deepspeed = None
-    parsed_cfg.fsdp = None
-    parsed_cfg.fsdp_config = None
-
     do_merge_lora(cfg=parsed_cfg)