Can Git bash save command history when window closed?

[dougbreaux]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.20.1.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 7c9fbc07db0e2939b36095df45864b8cda19b64f
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17763.292]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

$ cat /etc/install-options.txt
Editor Option: Notepad++
Custom Editor Path:
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

None

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

Bash

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

N/A

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

Bash command history saved immediately, regardless of how the shell is closed.

• What actually happened instead?

Bash command history is only saved on a graceful exit. Not on window close, which means not when Windows updates cause a reboot.

• If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
  URL to that repository to help us with testing?

N/A

[landstander668]

This is actually normal unix/linux behaviour, which MSYS2 is faithfully emulating on Windows. The typical workaround I've seen is to add export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a' to your bash initialization file(s). It looks like Git Bash launches BASH as a logon shell, so ~/.bash_profile is most likely where you want to do this.

This causes the history -a command to be run every time the shell prompt is displayed, which flushes pending updates to the file.

[dougbreaux]

Ok. Seems weird and inefficient, but if that's all I'm going to get ... :-)

[shiraze]

Duplicate of microsoft/vscode#151105?