Re: kill filter-branch --remap-to-ancestor?

Csaba Henk [off-list ref] writes:

I had some headache with the issue to which the cure is the
"--remap-to-ancestor" option of git filter-branch -- back when
"--remap-to-ancestor" was not yet
(cf. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112068/focus=112838).

This time, in a similar situation, I had some headache with finding out
that the panacea is already there and it's called "--remap-to-ancestor".

Why not cut back on complexity and get rid of "--remap-to-ancestor"
while automatically enable the implied behavior for filters including a
path? This was already proposed by Junio and the author of the option
had no objections against this idea (see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/130949/focus=132684).

I am not a heavy user of filter-branch myself (I used it once during the
past 6 months and it was with pathspec but the project did not have any
tags, so that particular exercise does not matter).

I do not offhand see a reason not to.  Please make it so, if you are
so inclined, or perhaps somebody else may volunteer?