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Incremental orbit determination has no CLI verb #520

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Incremental orbit determination has no command-line verb. grep -rn "incremental" src/layup_cmdline/ returns nothing, so incremental_orbitfit
is reachable only by importing it in Python, while orbitfit, convert,
predict, comet, visualize and unpack all have verbs.

It is a documented capability -- both papers describe it, and it is measured at
roughly 50x faster than a full refit -- so a user following the CLI will not
find the fastest path through the package.

Two smaller things surfaced alongside it:

  • There is no way to force a full refit. Routing (skip / sequential / full) is
    automatic, and the only way to insist is to withhold prior_obs.
  • layup#515 blocks the API route for anyone whose id column is not provID.

Found while writing the incremental section of the methods paper.

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