in reply to Can I convince Git Bash to use a specific version of Perl

I bet you've got a perl installed here: C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin. That's installed with Git for Windows. I suspect that git or a related library itself is calling perl for you (possibly something looks into the file?). I'm not sure though.

You can move the Strawberry Perl PATH environment variables to be read before the Git PATH, or, you can use berrybrew to manage your Perl installations.