Add Rerun Failed Jobs For Current Branch as a GitHub TIL

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+# Rerun Failed Jobs For Current Branch
+
+I have a branch that I've already opened a PR for. I've made more changes, run
+the tests, and pushed up the latest to the remote. I know the tests should have
+been green, but I'm seeing a flickering test fail in CI. I want to retrigger the
+relevant failed jobs to see if I can get the flickers to pass.
+
+First, I need to figure out the workflow ID with any failed jobs.
+
+```bash
+❯ gh run list --branch "$(git branch --show-current)" --status failure
+STATUS  TITLE           WORKFLOW      BRANCH        EVENT         ID           ELAPSED  AGE
+X       Better comp...  Ruby on R...  jbranchau...  pull_request  38778306948  10m54s   about 25 ...
+```
+
+This one-liner does that by referencing the current branch (via `git`) and then
+asking `gh` to list failed workflows associated with that branch.
+
+Grabbing the `ID` value, I can then ask `gh` to rerun failed jobs for that
+workflow.
+
+```bash
+❯ gh run rerun 38778306948 --failed
+✓ Requested rerun (failed jobs) of run 38778306948
+```
+
+Opening that PR up in the browser, I can see that the specific workflow has been
+rerun and is currently _in progress_.
+
+See `gh run list --help` and `gh run rerun --help` for more details.