Is it possible to separate history from configuration?

I want to put my ~/.conf/qpdfview/qpdfview.conf file into version control so all my settings are the same on different computers. However, qpdfview doesn't just use this file for configuration. Several entries in this file are related to history. For example, qpdfview saves the list of recently opened files in this .conf file, as well as the last open directory. This history information should be stored in a separate file. In fact, it should probably get stored in the ~/.local/cache directory, not ~/.config.

Maybe I should have filed this as a bug, but as it's more of a feature request I submitted it as a question.