You have been using something like Git Bash and now switch to MSYS2 but want to use your old .bashrc like before
me@jaykilleen.com wrote this over 6 years ago and it was last updated over 6 years ago.
I recently started using MSYS2 for Ruby on Rails development on Windows as per instructions on the RubyInstaller2.
Once I was setup though I was quickly missing my old .bashrc shortcuts.
No drama though. I followed this conversation I found between these devs who indicated you can change the MSYS2 default in the /etc/fstab file like below by adding c:/Users/KilleenJ /home/killeenj ntfs binary,posix=0,user 0 0.
I got here by opening the fstab using code /etc/fstab (I am now using Visual Studio Code but you could be doing something like atom /etc/fstab or vim /etc/fstab or gedit /etc/fstab if you have those other text editor programs installed).
# For a description of the file format, see the Users Guide
# http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
# DO NOT REMOVE NEXT LINE. It remove cygdrive prefix from path
none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,noacl,user 0 0
c:/Users/KilleenJ /home/killeenj ntfs binary,posix=0,user 0 0
What the last line does, I am guessing, is maps the home drive for MSYS2 to the home drive on the Windows directory. This way the .bashrc and .bash_profile files are loaded.
Yay!
By the way, it seems this RubyInstaller2 way of installing Ruby on Rails on a Windows environment is working really nicely compared to the RailsInstaller way. Fingers crossed this means a more friendly environment for Ruby on Rails development on Windows PCs.