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.
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-grained,
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 on
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
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 best
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.
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,
.
From 3e0dc8781417fe9b7ba665d1bc3b49fd884ba8b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bradley M. Kuhn bk...@ebb.org
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
