Atuin – Magical Shell History

For zsh users who like this idea and don't want to have to worry about anything leaving the device (not to insinuate that Atuin is doing anything below board, I don't think they are) I built my own version of this for myself called raven:

https://github.com/tylersaunders/raven

Raven has no sync component, stores your history in a sqlite, and never tries to move data off the device. It has a similar / large overlap in features with Atuin.

Sharing here in case anyone else could benefit from it, it only supports zsh for the moment since that's what I use.

Atuin is great though!

our sync is opt-in + optional, e2e encrypted, and self-hostable.

if that's not enough, you can disable all network features via a feature flag at compile time

if you don't care for sync, there are a bunch of other projects doing this (and supporting several shells), eg:

- mcfly: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

- resh: https://github.com/curusarn/resh

this is my only quip with atuin, despite my endorsement in a sibling comment. this should absolutely be opted-out BY DEFAULT. not defaulted to opt-in.

if you have someone outright cloning your entire project just to skip this opted-in privacy gap feature, it's a good indicator it's an issue to be mindful of!