This tool is meant to provide functionality that typically comes with a performance impact:

• Be able to quickly search your entire ZSH history, no matter how large.
• Be able to maintain good terminal performance by not holding the entire history in memory.

This tool copies the ZSH History file when run and can deduplicate the commands and produce a new history file.

This means you can have many backups of your history, a master history file, and a shorter actual history file for maximum shell performance.

The one caveat is that you must use a special command to search the history, hgi, which originally came from my tendancy to run history | grep -i some-snipped-here whenever I wanted to perform a history search.

1. Create history backup directory:

mkdir ~/.history_backups

2. Clone it:

git clone https://github.com/ckabalan/histman.git ~/.history_backups/histman

3. Initialize virtual environment:

cd ~/.history_backups/histman
poetry init

3. Configure weekly backups. Add the following to your ~/.zshrc:

/path/to/poetry/virtualenv/bin/python $HOME/.history_backups/histman/histman.py --backup-with-combine --frequency-days 7

4. Configure the history query alias hgi. Add the following to your ~/.zshrc:

hgi () {
	/path/to/poetry/virtualenv/bin/python $HOME/.history_backups/histman/histman.py --show-live-and-combined $@
}

ZSH History Manager is released under the MIT License