Atuin – Magical Shell History

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moonshot5 ◴[24 Jun 25 10:11 UTC] No.44364547[source]▶

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!

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ellieh ◴[24 Jun 25 10:17 UTC] No.44364574[source]▶

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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

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1. electromech ◴[24 Jun 25 11:55 UTC] No.44365180[source]▶

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I am happy Atuin user now, but I was initially worried that it would sync my data unless I explicitly disabled that feature. The fact that it's opt-in becomes clear once you read the docs and understand how it works, but it might be worth emphasizing that on the landing page. Currently it says:

    Shell history sync
    Sync your shell history to all of your machines, wherever they are

In any case, thanks for building a great tool!

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