.bashrc is not being read by git bash for git 2.5.1

Question

I use git for windows for version controlling. Here is the code of my .bashrc file for initial setup:

#eval `ssh-agent`
#ssh-add

SSH_ENV=$HOME/.ssh/environment

# start the ssh-agent
function start_agent {
    echo "Initializing new SSH agent..."
    # spawn ssh-agent
    /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
    echo succeeded
    chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
    . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
    /usr/bin/ssh-add
}

if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
     . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
     ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
        start_agent;
    }
else
    start_agent;
fi

# aliases
alias serve='php artisan serve'
...

Today I upgraded to git version 2.5.1. Now the bash shell has stopped initializing the .bashrc on startup. Before upgrading git-bash was working perfectly and used to read the bashrc file on startup. Any idea how to fix this?

Answer 1

Rename the .bashrc file to .bash_profile. This is the default config file for git 2.5.0 and later.