It is certainly preferable to you and others in a similar situation. It is, I suspect, somewhat less preferable to git maintainers, who would need to build and

It is certainly preferable to you and others in a similar situation. It is, I suspect, somewhat less preferable to git maintainers, who would need to build and test an additional binary package using a different toolchain for every release, and deal with bug reports from confused users mixing up git-with-bash and git-without-bash.