>>Why are you running Git through Bash? That just adds a bunch of overhead. Can't you just call the Windows command line version of Git?
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>First, because it was recommended. Second, because I haven't find a way yet to use Git.exe with a script file.

Not sure what you mean by 'script file'. Git.exe is a console application so you can automate it with batch files or powershell. Certainly no different from using Bash, but without the overhead of the extra shell. That just seems like an odd choice on a Windows system.