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put that into .bashrc:

export HISTFILESIZE=
export HISTSIZE=

There you go, unlimited history :)

From "man bash":

If HIST‐FILESIZE is not set, no truncation is performed.
That means .bash_history is never truncated

Also the same seems to apply to HISTSIZE, although I couldn't find that documented.

Another neat feature:

If the HISTTIMEFORMAT variable is set, time stamps are written to the history file, marked with the history comment character, so they may be preserved across shell sessions.

Let me know if you have tried that already...

export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '
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