Re: git cherry-pick --continue?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2010, 20:36 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfx5733x7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100211193248.GA27072@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>> Having said all I did in the previous message, I think "am --continue"
>> would be a good addition.
>
> OK. I agree with your philosophical ramblings in the previous message,
> but I also think there is some value in making it simple for the user to
> remember.

Certainly I am in agreement and that is why I think "am --continue" is a good thing.

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> Do you just want to pick up my patch from earlier in the thread, or do
> you have further comments? The only thing I could think to change would
> be that we may not want to even bother advertising --continue in the
> usage message (conversely, we could go a step further and actually
> advertise it in the manpage).

I would say our eventual goal should be to make "--continue" the primary word the end users would see. It would bring us closer to that goal to start advertising --continue early.