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

This seems to work under 1.9.5.msysgit.1

!foo=`bar`
cmd //c \\\\unc-path\\with\\slashes -args \"Quoted Arguments $foo\"