GNU bug report logs - #35769
Local .bash_history cleared when tramp-histfile-override is set to t

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Wanrong Lin <wrglin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 01:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Wanrong Lin <wrglin <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Local .bash_history cleared when tramp-histfile-override is set to t
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 21:11:33 -0400

Emacs 26.1, Linux
When I have this
(setq tramp-histfile-override t)
and use tramp to open a remote directory via scp, the *local*
~/.bash_history is wiped out (i.e. it becomes an empty file). I don't
think that is the desired behavior for this setting.

Thanks for looking into it.

W. Lin
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