this review is pretty poorly written but, he's got a point about using actual history footage, its a dam shame that people like bay can rewritte history and people will buy it. the moon landing should not be played wiht!
How much History do you have on the object? Try deleting the History then Extrude. When it crashes, Maya is attempting to save the file in that directory. Sometimes you get lucky and are able to reopen that file without any errors.
I don't see how he's changing history. The history is still there. It's just now they've been re-mastered? If I changed your quote on this post, it doesn't mean that I've removed your original post does it?
There is repeat (shift+R) that will redo the last action, then you can tweak it with the operator panel after like Slum said. History is F3 too if that helps. Just to note, History is a little flaky with Undo so not super reliable.
For the love of god, please someone help me. Is there a way to permanently disable 'save undo history' in zbrush? Having it on by default is perhaps the most idiotic thing I've ever come across when modeling... It's crashed my project multiple times after having forgotten to turn it off again when jumping back to previous…