Subject: bug#19731: 24.4; /dev/null is deleted by tramp-sh.el

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 12:44:34 +0100

crocket <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi,

> I think there are at least two solutions to tramp-sh.el problem.
>
> 1) Change the shell to zsh
> 2) unset $HISTFILE and set HISTFILESIZE to 0 instead of setting
> HISTFILE to /dev/null
> 3) etc...

In Emacs 25 (the development version), there is a customer option
`tramp-histfile-override'. You could use it for setting HISTFILE to
another value but "/dev/null". If you use the symbol `unset' as value,
HISTFILE will be unset.

Do you have a chance to check it?

Best regards, Michael.