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Genuine question, I see alot of people concerned by losing their shell history, any specific reason why?
I mean I keep mine to default and auto-delete every shell history after logout :/ And I never seemed bothered, I never go up more than 10 lines anyway... Whats the point/use case of keeping a whole shell history over time?
For me, it is not about "lost history." It is about contextual history and knowing if some tool I built in a distrobox uses only dandified, pacman, aptitude, portage; or if it also uses venv, conda; or if there was some install script.
It would be nice if I was on a stable kernel to avoid such a dependency salad, but that is not within the scope of playing with the latest AI toys where new tools and exploring new spaces is constantly creating opportunities to explore.
It would be nice if I was some genius full stack dev that could easily normalized all the tools under a single dependency containerization scheme, but that is not within my mental scope or interests at the present. For most AI tools, I follow the example given and only add a distrobox container as an extra layer of dependency buffering from the host. The ability to lazily see the terminal history for each of those containers is a handy way to see exactly what I did months ago.
Thanks for your insight ! Even though I didn't really get everything, but It seems there is a specific use case !
Maybe overtime with more experience I will get there and have a better understanding of what you meant with contextual history.