How to not make Git for Windows write entire script data into .bash_history?

[veda-tschoening]

Hi everyone,

I have multiple different scripts imeplemented in Bash and executed in Windows using Windows Explorer, but simply double-clicking the file or using the context menu and then "Open with...". Just recently I recognized that after the executed script finished, .bash_history gets created or updated with the content of the script 1:1. Which makes that history file practically useless when used in any Git Bash interactive shell.

The following is the command registered in Windows, though am not sure if that was created automatically or adapted manually already be me... But I don't see any commandline argument to prevent Git writing the history at all, which seems OK in this case as well.

"C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe" --no-cd "%L" %*

Is there any way to prevent that behaviour? Thanks!

[veda-tschoening]

The following reads like NOT forwarding the argument -i should make entire bash history handling be skipped. But that argument doesn't seem to be used in my case, still my history file is updated with unwanted context.

This should explain why the VSCode managed bash suffers from … let's call it long term memory loss, right? Details to be found in microsoft/vscode#151105, microsoft/vscode#85831, microsoft/vscode#85831 (comment), #2073. In effect not starting bash as an interactive session (the way VSCode does it) will bash skip the history stuff, so using -i as start up parameter as we do for Windows Terminal should fix this, right?

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