Bash in Git for Windows: Weirdness when running a command with CMD.exe /C with args

Question

This is more of an annoyance rather than a problem but I would very much like to understand the semantics here.

All I want to do is to run an arbitrary command on a

Answer 1

After reading this article I've found solution which works for me:

$ cat gvim.sh
cmd << EOD
gvim $@
EOD
$

Windows 8.1, Git (version 1.9.5-preview20141217), GNU bash, version 3.1.20(4)-release (i686-pc-msys).