And git on Windows comes with its own perl, which on my system is version 5.26.2. That would explain the extra perl in the path.

ScarletObsidian: where perl will list the location of all the perls in your path, and I would assume one will be under git's usr/bin subfolder. And now I think of it, if you are running the git console then calling which perl will list /usr/bin/perl, which is what you reported in your first post.