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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2024, 16:38 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqzfrym3fu.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20240606082114.GA1167215@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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?