[PATCH] HISTTIMEFORMAT should not be set while running existing histexp.tests

2011-06-25 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
. >From 3e0dc8781417fe9b7ba665d1bc3b49fd884ba8b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bradley M. Kuhn Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:27:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] HISTTIMEFORMAT should not be set while running existing histexp.tests If it is, the test output is not correct. This change unsets it bef

incremental history i/o? (was Re: A Feature Request for History)

2011-06-16 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
I agree with Marcel's points about keeping a big bash history, although I wasn't sure if discussing "why" users keep a big bash history was on topic or not. Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote at 13:16 (EDT) on Tuesday: > A .bash_history file going back years and years is still only a few > megs, Actu

Re: A Feature Request for History

2011-06-13 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Jayesh Badwaik wrote at 03:18 (EDT) on Saturday: > Every now and then I want a command from one of the instances of bash > to be used in another instance. In that case, the history of bash is > not that useful since it is quiet linear in nature and does not store > history of all bash instances.

Re: Bash source repository

2011-06-03 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Chet Ramey wrote at 15:59 (EDT) on Thursday: > I think there should be a master branch, and a branch that includes > posted patches other than those that have been "officially released." > Then other branches as needed to accommodate developers. I think that could work fine; I'm happy to do my be

Re: Bash source repository

2011-06-02 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Chet Ramey wrote at 17:25 (EDT) on Wednesday: > I think this is a great idea. I've already contacted Bradley and > encouraged him to go ahead. I'd like to thank him publicly for his > offer. Thanks, Chet! It was my pleasure to set this up. Thanks to Jari for the original idea and the first att

Re: Bash source repository

2011-05-30 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Michael Witten wrote at 02:34 (EDT): > Perhaps (and hopefully) Bradley meant that file moves were separated > from any other content changes that might otherwise have occurred > simultaneously. I probably did this in some cases and not others. Anyway, what I've got is clearly better than what's

Re: Bash source repository

2011-05-29 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
I wrote earlier this evening: > > I humbly suggest that http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git be > > replaced with this repository above that I've created. The new > > repository contains everything that the current Savannah one does, but I > > put much more effort into making commits fine-gra

Re: Bash source repository

2011-05-29 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Chet Ramey wrote on 2009-11-02: > Jari Aalto was setting up a git repository of current and older bash > versions on savannah. I'll keep him up to date with public versions > of bash Bob Proulx wrote on 2009-11-02: >> It looks like it has just recently been partially implemented. >> http://git.