You just need the embedded copy of portable git to be in place and on julia's path before cygwin's git. The installer is the fewest steps to make sure that's set up properly.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:02 PM -0800, "digxx" <diger_d...@hotmail.com> wrote: So basically you mean I have to change the way julia0.4 wants to shell out? Telling him somehow to shell out to cygwin and not git via cygwin?