On: Fly through your shell history

[gumby]

Changing defaults can have unexpected consequences, especially ones that have storage implication and especially in programs that are so tied to scripting.

I agree that the default is unfortunate but the points above seem more important.

[hnlmorg → gumby]

Changing bash history retention wouldn’t affect scripts. Scripts don’t write to the history log.

And bash has already changed numerous features over the years.