diff --git a/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/files/bash_history b/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/files/bash_history
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8757617
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/files/bash_history
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+pstart
+pstatus
+pstop
+workon python2-pagure
diff --git a/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/tasks/main.yml b/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/tasks/main.yml
index c5ead65..afa03cf 100644
--- a/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/dev/ansible/roles/pagure-dev/tasks/main.yml
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@
 - name: Install the message of the day
   copy: src=motd dest=/etc/motd
 
+- name: populate bash history
+  become_user: "{{ ansible_env.SUDO_USER }}"
+  copy: src=bash_history dest=/home/{{ ansible_env.SUDO_USER }}/.bash_history
 
 # Install Pagure inside a virtualenv and configure it
 - name: Install pygit2 in the virtualenv