Oh, nice! That's quite a long time ago, when can I expect this change to be released? I'm not familiar with Bash release lifecycle.
Thanks, Janek 2018-03-10 20:56 GMT+01:00 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu>: > On 3/10/18 8:27 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have noticed a strange behavior when working with bash "history" > command. > > Every command in history has its index, and I expected that clearing > > history should reset this index to zero. However, running history -c > > actually decrements this index by HISTSIZE, so that following commands > will > > not be numbered from 1. > > > > This can happen e.g. when you set HISTFILESIZE to a bigger value than > > HISTSIZE. In that case running "history -c; history -r" repeatedly will > > keep incrementing command indices, while I think it should not. > > That was changed back in December, 2016, and the change is in the devel > branch. Look at lib/readline/history.c:clear_history(). > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
