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One of my engs brought up that Bazel has a `--rerun N` flag which will re-run tests a certain # of times to help identify flaky tests. I could implement this in Pytest + Pants' `--force`, but it might be useful for other languages.
Anyone got thoughts?

yes <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/13505>

fwiw: `--force` works across all languages

Yeah that was why I made the post. I think the idea would be to add another flag like `--force` so that all languages benefit

a little bit more about the usecases would be good: i think that we were envisioning the retry setting as a tool to smooth out CI… this sounds more like a manually run local “is it flaky” tool

mm: a cool thing about this existing explicitly would be that it could run all attempts in parallel

Re use cases I think it boils down to two settings. Retry+retry behavior.