diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer-analyze.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer-analyze.txt
index 2624c1bed..3037a73b3 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer-analyze.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer-analyze.txt
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ OPTIONS
            Activates: Enable --class-loads and disable all other checkers
            (Conversely: --no-class-loads-only)
 
-       --continue
-           Activates: Continue the capture for the reactive analysis,
-           increasing the changed files/procedures. (If a procedure was
-           changed beforehand, keep the changed marking.) (Conversely:
-           --no-continue)
+       --continue-analysis
+           Activates: Continue the analysis after more targets are captured
+           by --continue. The other analysis options should be given the same
+           before. Not compatible with --reanalyze and
+           --incremental-analysis. (Conversely: --no-continue-analysis)
 
        --cost
            Activates: checker for performance cost analysis (Conversely:
diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer-capture.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer-capture.txt
index 25740983e..066442ec6 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer-capture.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer-capture.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
 
 OPTIONS
+       --continue
+           Activates: Continue the capture for the reactive analysis,
+           increasing the changed files/procedures. (If a procedure was
+           changed beforehand, keep the changed marking.) (Conversely:
+           --no-continue)
+
        --debug,-g
            Activates: Debug mode (also sets --debug-level 2,
            --developer-mode, --print-buckets, --print-types,
diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
index 6e35fd1dd..23df6ef4a 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer-full.txt
@@ -250,7 +250,14 @@ OPTIONS
            Activates: Continue the capture for the reactive analysis,
            increasing the changed files/procedures. (If a procedure was
            changed beforehand, keep the changed marking.) (Conversely:
-           --no-continue)           See also infer-analyze(1).
+           --no-continue)           See also infer-capture(1).
+
+       --continue-analysis
+           Activates: Continue the analysis after more targets are captured
+           by --continue. The other analysis options should be given the same
+           before. Not compatible with --reanalyze and
+           --incremental-analysis. (Conversely: --no-continue-analysis)       
+    See also infer-analyze(1).
 
        --cost
            Activates: checker for performance cost analysis (Conversely:
@@ -1441,8 +1448,8 @@ INTERNAL OPTIONS
 
        --incremental-analysis
            Activates: [EXPERIMENTAL] Use incremental analysis for changed
-           files. Not compatible with --reanalyze. (Conversely:
-           --no-incremental-analysis)
+           files. Not compatible with --reanalyze and --continue-analysis.
+           (Conversely: --no-incremental-analysis)
 
        --iphoneos-target-sdk-version-path-regex-reset
            Set --iphoneos-target-sdk-version-path-regex to the empty list.
@@ -1664,7 +1671,8 @@ INTERNAL OPTIONS
 
        --reanalyze
            Activates: Rerun the analysis. Not compatible with
-           --incremental-analysis. (Conversely: --no-reanalyze)
+           --incremental-analysis and --continue-analysis. (Conversely:
+           --no-reanalyze)
 
        --report-blacklist-files-containing-reset
            Set --report-blacklist-files-containing to the empty list.
diff --git a/infer/man/man1/infer.txt b/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
index c7b50cb1e..76cf94ef3 100644
--- a/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
+++ b/infer/man/man1/infer.txt
@@ -250,7 +250,14 @@ OPTIONS
            Activates: Continue the capture for the reactive analysis,
            increasing the changed files/procedures. (If a procedure was
            changed beforehand, keep the changed marking.) (Conversely:
-           --no-continue)           See also infer-analyze(1).
+           --no-continue)           See also infer-capture(1).
+
+       --continue-analysis
+           Activates: Continue the analysis after more targets are captured
+           by --continue. The other analysis options should be given the same
+           before. Not compatible with --reanalyze and
+           --incremental-analysis. (Conversely: --no-continue-analysis)       
+    See also infer-analyze(1).
 
        --cost
            Activates: checker for performance cost analysis (Conversely:
diff --git a/infer/src/backend/InferAnalyze.ml b/infer/src/backend/InferAnalyze.ml
index 6912ef705..259fb43ff 100644
--- a/infer/src/backend/InferAnalyze.ml
+++ b/infer/src/backend/InferAnalyze.ml
@@ -196,11 +196,12 @@ let invalidate_changed_procedures changed_files =
 let main ~changed_files =
   let time0 = Mtime_clock.counter () in
   register_active_checkers () ;
-  if Config.reanalyze then (
-    L.progress "Invalidating procedures to be reanalyzed@." ;
-    Summary.OnDisk.reset_all ~filter:(Lazy.force Filtering.procedures_filter) () ;
-    L.progress "Done@." )
-  else if not Config.incremental_analysis then DB.Results_dir.clean_specs_dir () ;
+  if not Config.continue_analysis then
+    if Config.reanalyze then (
+      L.progress "Invalidating procedures to be reanalyzed@." ;
+      Summary.OnDisk.reset_all ~filter:(Lazy.force Filtering.procedures_filter) () ;
+      L.progress "Done@." )
+    else if not Config.incremental_analysis then DB.Results_dir.clean_specs_dir () ;
   let source_files = get_source_files_to_analyze ~changed_files in
   (* empty all caches to minimize the process heap to have less work to do when forking *)
   clear_caches () ;
diff --git a/infer/src/base/Config.ml b/infer/src/base/Config.ml
index ac43eb31d..1f6f0b34f 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/Config.ml
+++ b/infer/src/base/Config.ml
@@ -1084,11 +1084,19 @@ and compute_analytics =
     marking. *)
 and continue =
   CLOpt.mk_bool ~deprecated:["continue"] ~long:"continue"
-    ~in_help:InferCommand.[(Analyze, manual_generic)]
+    ~in_help:InferCommand.[(Capture, manual_generic)]
     "Continue the capture for the reactive analysis, increasing the changed files/procedures. (If \
      a procedure was changed beforehand, keep the changed marking.)"
 
 
+and continue_analysis =
+  CLOpt.mk_bool ~long:"continue-analysis"
+    ~in_help:InferCommand.[(Analyze, manual_generic)]
+    "Continue the analysis after more targets are captured by $(b,--continue). The other analysis \
+     options should be given the same before. Not compatible with $(b,--reanalyze) and \
+     $(b,--incremental-analysis)."
+
+
 and costs_current =
   CLOpt.mk_path_opt ~long:"costs-current"
     ~in_help:InferCommand.[(ReportDiff, manual_generic)]
@@ -2036,7 +2044,8 @@ and reactive_capture =
 
 and reanalyze =
   CLOpt.mk_bool ~long:"reanalyze"
-    "Rerun the analysis. Not compatible with $(b,--incremental-analysis)."
+    "Rerun the analysis. Not compatible with $(b,--incremental-analysis) and \
+     $(b,--continue-analysis)."
 
 
 and relative_path_backtrack =
@@ -2439,7 +2448,7 @@ and use_cost_threshold =
 and incremental_analysis =
   CLOpt.mk_bool ~long:"incremental-analysis" ~default:false
     "[EXPERIMENTAL] Use incremental analysis for changed files. Not compatible with \
-     $(b,--reanalyze)."
+     $(b,--reanalyze) and $(b,--continue-analysis)."
 
 
 and version =
@@ -2827,6 +2836,8 @@ and class_loads_roots = String.Set.of_list !class_loads_roots
 
 and compute_analytics = !compute_analytics
 
+and continue_analysis = !continue_analysis
+
 and continue_capture = !continue
 
 and cost = !cost
diff --git a/infer/src/base/Config.mli b/infer/src/base/Config.mli
index b39520d6d..637adeb5e 100644
--- a/infer/src/base/Config.mli
+++ b/infer/src/base/Config.mli
@@ -290,6 +290,8 @@ val command : InferCommand.t
 
 val compute_analytics : bool
 
+val continue_analysis : bool
+
 val continue_capture : bool
 
 val cost : bool