And, when I tried this, it pointed to an actual problem in git rather than
a problem in Cygwin so that limits what is meant by "developer".
Isn't git normally used for source control management by programmers?
If this is such a bad problem why isn't one of those programmers looking
into it and proposing a fix? That's one of the reasons for free
software - you can fix the problems yourself.
And, before someone inevitably opines that I'm just being mean, I have
to point out that this really is how many open source projects work.
People who are not maintainers actually do propose fixes.