stg status: error: while expanding shell alias (program not found)

[kqr]

Running stg status on a fresh installation in Windows fails with the following error:

error: while expanding shell alias `<stuff>` program not found

I could work around this by adding c:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin to the path as specified in a different issue – presumably because this gives stgit access to sh.

I don't know if there's an actual problem with stgit here, so feel free to close the issue immediately. I'm mainly writing it up to share my workaround in case someone else has the same problem.