history-sync

An Oh My Zsh plugin for GPG encrypted, Internet synchronized Zsh history using Git.

Installation

sudo apt install gpg git
git clone [email protected]:wulfgarpro/history-sync.git
cp -r history-sync ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins

Then open .zshrc file and append history-sync to the plugin line:

plugins=(... history-sync)

And finally, reload zsh:

zsh

Usage

Before history-sync can be useful, you need two things:

1. A hosted git repository, e.g. GitHub, Bitbucket
   • Ideally with ssh key access
2. A configured gpg key pair for encrypting and decrypting your history file and the enrolled public keys of all the nodes in your web of trust
   • See the GnuPG documentation for more information since it's outside the scope of this README

Once you have these things in place, it's just a matter of updating the needed environment variables to suit your configuration:

• ZSH_HISTORY_FILE: your zsh_history file location
• ZSH_HISTORY_PROJ: your git project for housing your zsh_history file
• ZSH_HISTORY_FILE_ENC: your encrypted zsh_history file location
• GIT_COMMIT_MSG: your default message when pushing to $ZSH_HISTORY_PROJ

Which have the following defaults:

ZSH_HISTORY_FILE_NAME=".zsh_history"
ZSH_HISTORY_FILE="${HOME}/${ZSH_HISTORY_FILE_NAME}"
ZSH_HISTORY_PROJ="${HOME}/.zsh_history_proj"
ZSH_HISTORY_FILE_ENC_NAME="zsh_history"
ZSH_HISTORY_FILE_ENC="${ZSH_HISTORY_PROJ}/${ZSH_HISTORY_FILE_ENC_NAME}"
GIT_COMMIT_MSG="latest $(date)"

and running the commands:

# pull history
zhpl

# push history
zhps -r "John Brown" -r 876T3F78 -r ...

# pull and push history
zhsync

Demo

Check out the screen cast.

Licence

MIT @ James Fraser