git-filter-repo For Windows (possibly a request for a bash for Windows primer)

This follows my earlier query for which the answer was "use git-filter-repo". I've cloned git-filter-repo from GitHub, and I've installed the latest Python (version 3.8). I'm working on Windows.  Windows 10 if it makes any difference, so git is Git For Windows. The first instruction for git-filter-repo is to copy it into the "--exec-path" of git.  That fails, saying Access is Denied.  So leaving aside the option to change the permissions I've followed the second half of the sentence and added my git-filter-repo location to my Path (or PATH if it's in bash).  Now running "get filter-repo" gives: /usr/bin/env: 'python3.exe': No such file or directory

My python executable is called python3.exe.  There is a note in the git-filter-repo project about certain Windows installations where it isn't called python3, but that now raises in my mind the question of whether I need to tweak git-filter-repo to look for "python3.exe" rather than just "python3".  Or can I take it that the Windows version of bash understands that it needs to add ".exe" automatically?

Assuming that is handled automatically, what do I now need to do to satisfy the error message?  Do I need to put something in bash-for-Windows' /usr/bin/env directory?  Or is there something else entirely that I should be doing?

And is it OK to ask about this on this list, or should I be going to a git-filter-branch resource?  Or for Git For Windows?

Regards, Richard.

Richard Kerry
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