GnuMake SHELL under windows

I am trying to make a simple makefile (GNU Make 3.81) work under windows, using cygwin installed with the git-for-windows "distro".

Everything seems to work, but the SHELL. It always shows "sh" being used. The manual has some notes about SHELL on windows, but it mentions COMSPEC, which points to the actual windows shell (cmd.exe) which does not play any role here. Also $(COMSPEC) on the Makefile results in a blank string, while $(SHELL) is always the path to sh.exe, which is the one being used that I am trying to replace with bash.exe

This is the minimum Makefile to reproduce:

$ cat Makefile
SHELL="C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/bash.exe"
info: $(info SHELL is "$(SHELL)")

$ make info
SHELL is "C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin/sh.exe"
make: `info' is up to date.

Anyone already figured out how to use bash in this setup?

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