bash v5.3 messing with history?

[gc-user]

At least for me bash 5.3 seems to messing with bash_history.
This might be a bug or the (tolerated) result of a conscious change / new feature.

It looks like this:

Let's assume the following commands are in the history

git commit -a
git checkout master
git stash
git pull -r

So, if I use the arrow keys to scroll through the history, everything is fine. If I insert a letter after "git" to faster get to the result I'm looking for, let's say like this:

git pull -r -> git cpull -r to faster get to "git checkout master", e.g. and then use the arrow key to make bash to actually go to "git checkout master", it does that as expected, but in v5.3 it also now adds "git cpull -r" to the history even though that command was never "entered / executed", i.e. the "enter" button never was hit, so this "command" should not be added to the history.

This "new behavior" is, of course, very annoying, because is adds (most probably) non-working and never executed commands which need to be removed from history manually. Which is why I went back to the previous version that void offered.

This behavior might be triggered by script(s) that I use to enable the history search / completion, but maybe it really is an upstream bug which would have been reported by someone by now, but I couldn't find anything so I'd rather ask if anyone else ran into this "annoyance".

bash script via /etc (remnant from project trident):

if [ "${USER}" = "root" ] ; then
  export PS1="\[\e[31m\]\u\[\e[m\]|\[\e[36m\]\w\[\e[m\]> "
  export GOPATH=/root/.go
else
  export PS1="\[\e[34m\]\u\[\e[m\]|\[\e[36m\]\w\[\e[m\]> "
  export GOPATH=${HOME}/.local/go
fi
export PATH="${PATH}:${GOPATH}/bin"
alias about="fastfetch"
alias ls="ls --color"
export HISTSIZE=50
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
bind '"\e[A": history-search-backward'
bind '"\e[B": history-search-forward'

via ~/.bashrc (note: on my system, there is no /etc/bash-completion, just /usr/share/bash-completion):

# .bashrc

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[\t \u@\h \W]\$ '

HISTSIZE=-1
HISTFILESIZE=-1

HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups

shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -n; history -w; history -c; history -r; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
tac "$HISTFILE" | awk '!x[$0]++' > /tmp/tmpfile && tac /tmp/tmpfile > "$HISTFILE"
rm /tmp/tmpfile

if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
   . /etc/bash_completion
fi

[Duncaen]

This doesn't seem to be related to void and you are doing a lot of things to the histfile in your bashrc and prompt command.