History File Limit

[bashologist]

Edit: Problem Solved.

Problem:
A new version of bash added these lines to the top of ~/.bashrc:

HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000

Making these lines which I appended to the bottom of the file useless:

export HISTSIZE=999999
export HISTFILESIZE=999999

Maybe I shouldn't have been using export. In any case it's frecking annoying that they added these lines.

Solution is to not use export.