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Re: [PATCH 5/7] PR gdb/15224 , Change the default set history filename to ~/.gdb_history.


> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 17:07:35 +0500
> From: mbilal <mbilal@codesourcery.com>
> CC: <palves@redhat.com>, <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
> 	<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> 
> On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 4:31 PM Eli wrote:
> 
> >Any reasons why we  should be changing the default?  Is it bad to have
>  >a different history file in each project's directory?
> 
> On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:29:30 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > I see there should be also changed the default to:
> >       set history filename ~/.gdb_history
> 
> >Otherwise it is a similar pain to ./.gdbinit, it is also non-standard to any
> >other normal application which use history files in $HOME, I do not find using
> >./.gdb_history by default as acceptable.
> All therequirement for this issue has beendiscussed here.  
> 
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-04/msg00067.html

Sigh...  Another gratuitous backward incompatibility creeps in.


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