What kind of terminal did you start Julia from? The shell mode is a bit misleading in that it doesn't actually execute through a shell. So it can't run shell builtins from either posix sh or windows cmd. It executes other programs that are on your path. Some of the default path settings were changed for 0.4.2 w.r.t. the embedded copy of git.
- [julia-users] Windows shell commands, differences 0.4.1. to 0.... hustf
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