“Git Bash here” is not preserving bash history between sessions

Question

I am running Git-1.8.0-preview20121022 on Windows 7 and the install was with "Git Bash Only" (least intrusive to Windows cmd).

When I open the Git Bash from the start menu shortcut, everything is fine with the history.

But when the Git Bash here context menu (either the git-cheetah shell extension one or the simpler registry one) is what launched a session, the commands from that session are not saved to the .bash_history.

How could figure out why this is happening? Or better yet, does someone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

You should be able to fix this by adding this line to your ~/.bash_profile

PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'

Answer 2

Putting

PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a ~/.bash_history'

into the .bash_profile did it for me.