Apologies if this is wrong format of question: my issue is resolved in another post but I'm hoping for help on understanding the why.
I've been trying to run
bower install
through the command line as administrator on Windows 8, and I get the error
bower ENOGIT git is not installed or not in the PATH
However, other "git..." commands in the same window work fine (Git's /bin/ and /cmd/ have been added manually to the system-level path). As per the helpful suggestion at https://stackoverflow.com/a/21444065/4477927 , running bower install at the same location through git bash - rather than windows cmd - works fine.
So although my problem is solved I'd like to improve my understanding of the tools by knowing why the git command works when typed manually, and can be invoked by bower through git bash, but cant be invoked by bower through cmd?
