repl: fix flaky test-repl-programmatic-history #2945

Job	Run time
Build slim tarball	1m 32s
x86_64-darwin: with shared libraries	1h 5m 19s
aarch64-darwin: with shared libraries	2h 16m 10s
aarch64-linux: with shared libraries	1h 24m 46s
x86_64-linux: with shared libraries	2h 17m 47s
	7h 5m 34s

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