Re: [PATCH 1/2] am: add explicit "--retry" option

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> I think even without the test-terminal cleanup, this is a good thing.
>> Any time there is a heuristic like isatty(), we should have a way for
>> the user to be more explicit about what they want().
>
> I very often do "git am --no-3" to countermand a failed "git am -3"
> (or vice versa), so I'll be hit very hard with a need to retrain my
> fingers.  But I'll live ;-)

> "--retry" is a horrible word, in that it makes it sound like it will
> keep trying to apply the same patch over and over until it applies
> cleanly or something.  Can't we use "--continue" like everybody else
> (like "git rebase --continue", etc.), or would that be even more
> confusing?