How is bash command history stored in Git for Windows

[Philip Oakley]

I've never really understood how the bash command history is maintained.
Is the comand history meant to be stored between sessions? I don't
appear to be able to see the commands I used yesterday, though there are
other very old command in the up/down scroll buffer.

Where should I be looking? Any suggestions for what may be going wrong

Philip

In on Windows XP Sp3

$ git --version
git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0

I've had a number of different versions installed over the last 2 years,
including the MsysGit proper compiled version, and versions loaded by
GitExtensions.

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Philip,

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Philip Oakley wrote:

> I've never really understood how the bash command history is maintained.

Have a look at ~/.bash_history

Ciao,
Johannes

[Philip Oakley]

From: "Philip Oakley" <philip...@iee.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:09 PM

> I've never really understood how the bash command history is
> maintained. Is the comand history meant to be stored between sessions?
> I don't appear to be able to see the commands I used yesterday, though
> there are other very old command in the up/down scroll buffer.
>
> Where should I be looking? Any suggestions for what may be going wrong

A part answer to my own question.
using the bash command 'env' I see:
HISTFILE=/c/Documents and Settings/Philip/.bash_history
but that file hadn't changed since December 2012.

I deliberately closed the bash window using 'exit' rather than my normal
Windows red-X close, and on restarting the bash window (task bar
icon...) I now saw that my last few commands from that last bash window
were present in the scroll back.

So how to get the Windows close red-X on bash to do the same as 'exit' ?

As a workaround I'll need to select focus on the bash window and type
exit when closing down.

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> Philip
>
> In on Windows XP Sp3
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.8.0.msysgit.0
>
> I've had a number of different versions installed over the last 2
> years, including the MsysGit proper compiled version, and versions
> loaded by GitExtensions.

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