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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:09:50 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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Greetings, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]!

>>>> It's even weirder, than you'd think.
>>>> Hint: reg:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console
>>>
>>The MSYS part of msysgit doesn't muck with registry keys. Maybe
>>something with tksh that it uses does.

> Since HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console has subkeys (on my machine) for bash
> and cmd, perhaps the key is created and maintained by Window's console
> handling facilities.  Seems to me to be more likely than a cygwin shell
> knowing about and needing the Windows registry.

These keys created when you mess with console properties of a running
application.
I don't touch them and I only have one bogus subkey mentioning "summary.bat"
Don't remember, what was that batch, though. I just deleted the subkey for
now.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 01.03.2012, <10:04>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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