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Feature: Use installed git.exe instead of libgit2
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Description
### What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?
Having this as an option would allow Files to easily support the full range of Git features, including automatically respecting the user's Git settings, using any authentication methods they have already configured, and pushing to ssh remotes. This is a fairly common way of implementing Git support, seen in software like [vscode](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/sourcecontrol/faq#_why-is-vs-code-warning-me-that-the-git-repository-is-potentially-unsafe). Files can fall back to libgit2 for basic support if Git is not already installed (unlikely on a developer's machine)
### Requirements
- [ ] Introduce an `IGitService` abstraction and refactor the existing `GitHelpers` implementation to use it
- [ ] Implement existing Git operations through git.exe and use this implementation if git.exe is found
- [ ] Add configuration options
### Files Version
3.8.13
### Windows Version
10.0.27774.1000
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