--enable-history not available?

[mercster]

Man page says --enable-history ... enables history (I'm not sure what this does yet, I was hoping to find out.) However, on Fedora 43's glances package:

Glances version:        4.3.0.8
Glances API version:    4
PsUtil version:         7.0.0
Log file:               /home/merc/.local/share/glances/glances.log

I get this:

glances: error: unrecognized arguments: --enable-history

[nicolargo]

Sorry, it was a mistake in the documentation. --enable-history is no longer usefull because history is enable by default and the retention can be set thank to the dollocing option in the glances.conf file:

[global]
# History size (maximum number of values)
# Default is 1200 values (~1h with the default refresh rate)
history_size=1200

It will be used to display sparkline (--sparline option), or export to graph (--export graph and click 'g' in the TUI) or display some trends.

Thanks for the report, i will update the documentation.

[mercster]

Yep, no worries. Not surprising, I don't think the newer generation of users read man pages. They're fine with dozens of weird flatpaks and doing everything in a GUI. No, I'm not an angry old man.

[nicolargo]

@mercster i'am also from the old scool and i don't want my project to have a wrong or incomplete documentation. I have cloned the current discussion in order to follow the correctives actions: #3416