I've installed Git for Windows, configured to use Git commands exclusively in Git Bash.
So I have a file composer.cmd sitting beside composer.phar which looks like this:
@echo off
php C:\bin\composer.phar %*
However, I still need to enter .cmd or .phar at the end of the command for it to see it. The extension .CMD exists in $PATHEXT but it doesn't seem to matter. Having to retype a command because I left off the extension breaks my rhythm, and it seems incredibly arbitrary that I'm able to run .exe files without the extensions.
I want to know if there's a way to coerce it into accepting that .cmd files do not need to have their extensions specified. And I'm not using the MSI package to install Composer.
You need to create a new file in the same dir as composer.bat and just call it composer without extension. Include this line:
cmd "/C composer.bat $@"
After this the command should work from git bash:
composer -V