@asottile I tried this out, and it does move the cygwin mismatch check up earlier. I don't think it fixes the issue though, it isn't that I am missing the error because of the other issues, the problem is that I shouldn't be getting this warning at all. I am not running in cygwin, I am in MSYS2 and my git and Python aren't mismatched.

they are mismatched, one is acting like windows and the other is acting like posix -- that's the entire point of the warning