Julia should now completely ignore that file, so that's unlikely to be the answer.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 6:31 PM, John Myles White <johnmyleswh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe you need to delete .julia_history2 (assuming you have one)? > > — John > > On Jun 7, 2014, at 3:28 PM, cnbiz850 <cnbiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Lately, every time I start up julia I got the following error. And > every time I have to delete ~/.julia_history. Why? > > > > -------------------------- > > $ julia > > _ > > _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing > > (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org > > _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics > > | | | | | | |/ _` | | > > | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+3512 (2014-06-05 19:22 > UTC) > > _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit e16ee44* (2 days old master) > > |__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu > > > > ERROR: Invalid history format. If you have a ~/.julia_history file left > over from an older version of Julia, try renaming or deleting it. > > > > in hist_from_file at REPL.jl:277 > > in setup_interface at REPL.jl:594 > > in run_frontend at REPL.jl:718 > > in run_repl at REPL.jl:162 > > in _start at client.jl:396 > >
