Holy hell I thought I was going crazy with git-for-windows randomly spitting out "C:\Program Files\Git" out of nowhere... https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/main/ReleaseNotes.md
"""If you specify command-line options starting with a slash, POSIX-to-Windows path conversion will kick in converting e.g. "/usr/bin/bash.exe" to "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe". When that is not desired -- e.g. "--upload-pack=/opt/git/bin/git-upload-pack" or "-L/regex/" -- you need to set the environment variable MSYS_NO_PATHCONV"""