Feature: set a timeout for the entire retry operation

[fastfrwrd]

I find myself doing this a lot when using async-retry:

await Promise.race(
  retry(/* ... */),
  new Promise((_, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      reject(new Error('FAILED to complete async retry in less than 1 minute'))
    }, 60000)
  }),
)

It would be awesome if there were a clean way to provide an option (retryTimeout?) that allowed you to say ("time out after the retry went for this long, regardless of the attempt number").

[bybraveHQ]

A maintained fork adds a signal option (AbortSignal) to abort the whole operation — combine it with AbortSignal.timeout(ms) for a total-operation timeout:

await retry(run, { retries: 100, signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000) });

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