XP: Comment - Path /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin: isn't on XP

[PhilipOakley]

While testing on my little XP netbook I noticed that the echo $PATH has moved relative to the old MsysGit, so that my personal little BringUptodate script wasn't found. This is with the install from issue #42.

Philip@PhilipOakley MINGW32 ~
$ !Br
BringGitUptodate.sh
bash: BringGitUptodate.sh: command not found`

i.e. (new)

Philip@PhilipOakley MINGW32 ~
$ echo $PATH
/mingw32/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/d/Program Files/Windows Resource Kits/Tools:/c/Tcl/bin:[...]

v.s. (old)

Philip@PHILIPOAKLEY ~
$ echo $PATH
 /c/Documents and Settings/Philip/bin:.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/d/Program Files/Windows Resource Kits/Tools/:/c/Tcl/bin:[...]

I haven't done any looking yet....

[nalla]

The $PATH is being constructed by the /etc/profile file. If you compare those two files, you'll find out that export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" was present in the msysgit one.

As a workaround if you want to edit your $PATH, maybe put that line in your .bashrc file.

/etc/profile is maintained by MSYS2. We could ship a path.sh within the /etc/profile.d directory that would do what you want.

See git-for-windows/build-extra#17.