You can set up a per-directory bash history: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/305524/create-history-log-per-working-directory-in-bash https://unix.stack

You can set up a per-directory bash history: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/305524/create-history-log-per-working-directory-in-bash https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/305524/create-histo... And a Makefile sounds like it'd be pretty helpful too!