On 3/25/15 2:07 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hey.
>
> When HISTTIMEFORMAT is used the history time comment lines are written
> to HISTFILE.
> Therefore, HISTFILESIZE is effectively only half as large.
>
> Would it be possible to simply not count the history time comment lines
> when enforcing HISTFILESIZE?
The history file truncation code already skips lines that look like history
timestamps. Look at history.c:history_truncate_file().
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