git-bash $PATH cannot parse windows directory with space

Question

I would like to use git-bash come with github client on a windows 7 (32bit) machine. Somehow, the git-bash has already learned the $PATH variables from windows

Answer 1

I am having similar problem.
After some struggle, i put this on the first line in my C:\Program Files\Git\etc\profile:

export HOME=`cygpath -u "\`cygpath -d "$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH"\`"`

and type command echo $HOME in bash will come out /c/Users/NAMEXX~1, no more space parsing problem for my $HOME or ~/ !