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On 02/01/2013 19:35, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Every time you open up mintty you are starting a new login bash.
> The way to set environment variables "persistently" (your term,
> not mine) is to add the export command to your .bash_profile or
> similar bash file read by bash when it starts up.  This is not
> specific to cygwin, but is normal Unix-like behavior.

I've workarounded it adding the desired path to windows' path directly, 
which is imported into cygwin each time mintty is started.

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