fix(shell): don't export DEVBOX_HIST_SET so nested shells flush history

The history-flush guard was exported, so it leaked into child processes.
Any nested shell -- crucially each tmux pane (which inherits the tmux
server's env) -- then saw the guard already set and skipped installing
'history -a' in PROMPT_COMMAND. Those shells only persisted history on a
clean exit, so abrupt termination (docker stop, tmux kill-server, SIGKILL)
silently lost their in-memory history. zoxide was less affected (its hook
is installed unguarded and writes immediately).

Make the guard shell-local (drop 'export') so every new interactive shell
re-installs its own per-prompt flush. Add a recreate-sanity-check assertion
that a nested login shell still wires up 'history -a'.

Storage was never the issue: ~/.cache/bash (devbox-shell-history) and
~/.local/share/zoxide (devbox-zoxide) are both persistent named volumes.
This commit is contained in:
Joakim Persson
2026-06-17 17:22:30 +02:00
parent 1371584634
commit 5c08bfc8a8
2 changed files with 18 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -89,9 +89,16 @@ fi
# we append with a newline separator to avoid the ';;' parse error
# described at the top of this file. Guarded so repeated sourcing
# (e.g. `exec bash`) doesn't stack duplicates.
#
# The guard MUST stay shell-local (NOT exported): if it leaks into child
# processes, every nested shell -- crucially each tmux pane, which inherits
# the tmux server's env -- skips installing `history -a` and only persists
# history on a clean exit. Abrupt termination (docker stop, tmux kill-server,
# SIGKILL) then loses that shell's in-memory history. Keeping it unexported
# means each new interactive shell re-installs its own per-prompt flush.
if [ -z "${DEVBOX_HIST_SET:-}" ]; then
PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND$'\n'}history -a"
export DEVBOX_HIST_SET=1
DEVBOX_HIST_SET=1
fi
# ── Prompt: show [opencode-devbox] tag so it's obvious you're in the container
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@@ -222,6 +222,16 @@ else
fail "~/.bash_aliases missing"
fi
# History flush must survive shell nesting. The DEVBOX_HIST_SET guard must NOT
# be exported: if it leaks into child processes, nested shells (esp. tmux
# panes) skip installing `history -a` and lose in-memory history on abrupt
# termination. Assert a child login shell still wires up the per-prompt flush.
if bash -lic 'bash -lic "case \"\$PROMPT_COMMAND\" in *\"history -a\"*) exit 0;; *) exit 1;; esac"' </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1; then
pass "nested shell installs 'history -a' (DEVBOX_HIST_SET not exported)"
else
fail "nested shell missing 'history -a' — DEVBOX_HIST_SET leaking to children?"
fi
if [ -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
pass "~/.inputrc exists"
else