Re: [PATCH v5 00/14] Introduce new `git replay` command

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 5:39 AM Christian Couder
> <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > * Patch 12/15 (replay: disallow revision specific options and
> >   pathspecs) in version 4 has been removed, so there are now only 14
> >   patches instead of 15 in the series. This follows a suggestion by
> >   Dscho, and goes in the direction Elijah initially wanted before
> >   Derrick Stolee argued for disallowing revision specific options and
> >   pathspecs.
>
> [... snipping many parts that I agree with...]
>
> >   Also instead of forcing reverse order we use the reverse order by
> >   default but allow it to be changed using `--reverse`. Thanks to
> >   Dscho.
>
> I can see why this might sometimes be useful for exclusively linear
> history, but it seems to open a can of worms and possibly unfixable
> corner cases for non-linear history.  I'd rather not do this, or at
> least pull it out of this series and let us discuss it in some follow
> up series.  There are some other alternatives that might handle such
> usecases better.