From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:36:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git cherry-pick --continue?
Message-ID: <7vfx5733x7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100211193248.GA27072@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> 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.

> 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.