That's definitely a problem. Could you file an issue? Ideally, including example contents from a produced ~/.julia_history file.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 6:28 PM, cnbiz850 <cnbiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lately, every time I start up julia I got the following error. And every > time I have to delete ~/.julia_history. Why? > > -------------------------- > $ julia > _ > _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing > (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org > _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics > | | | | | | |/ _` | | > | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+3512 (2014-06-05 19:22 > UTC) > _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit e16ee44* (2 days old master) > |__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu > > ERROR: Invalid history format. If you have a ~/.julia_history file left > over from an older version of Julia, try renaming or deleting it. > > in hist_from_file at REPL.jl:277 > in setup_interface at REPL.jl:594 > in run_frontend at REPL.jl:718 > in run_repl at REPL.jl:162 > in _start at client.jl:396 >
