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$PATH not quite right #18

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After opening up up PortableGit (using a git-bash.bat file to keep the settings portable per http://stackoverflow.com/a/3455231/647393 - which by the way should be standard for PortableGit IMO), I found that my $PATH looks like this:
//bin:.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/Misc/ConEmu/ConEmu:/c/Windows/system32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/c/Program Files (x86)/ATI Technologies/ATI.ACE/Core-Static:/c/Program Files (x86)/Heroku/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/git/cmd:/c/Program Files (x86)/Java/jre7/bin: C:/Misc/PortablePython-2.7.5.1/App/Scripts

The last path looks different than the rest and therefore doesn't work, and I don't know why. The last two are both part of the user PATH environment variable in Windows 7 but the Java one doesn't get converted into C:/ rather than /c/.

I was able to fix this by editing .bash_profile to append :/c/misc/portablepython-2.7.5.1/app/scripts which works. Incidentally .bash_profile works but .bashrc does not work, which seems opposite of what I'd expect per .bash_profile only applying to "login shells" per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/415403/whats-the-difference-between-bashrc-bash-profile-and-environment.

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