Re: Any interest in 'git merge --continue' as a command

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 09:49:13PM +1300, Chris Packham wrote:

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There is nothing to "continue" in a stopped merge where Git asked
for help from the user, and because of that, I view the final "git
commit" as "concluding the merge", not "continuing".  "continue"
makes quite a lot of sense with rebase and cherry-pick A..B that
stopped; it concludes the current step and let it continue to
process the remainder.  So from that point of view, it somewhat
feels strange to call it "merge --continue", but it probably is just
me.

Yeah I did think that --continue wasn't quite the right word. git
merge --conclude would probably be the most accurate.

I'd be against giving it a subtly-different name. It's just going to
frustrate people who cannot remember when to use "--conclude" and when
it is "--continue". The strength of the proposal, IMHO, is that it
abstracts the idea of "go on to the next thing or finish" across many
commands.

-Peff