(git) calls itself, but depends on $PATH to know where (git) is?

So for whatever pundek reason ...

This will fail with " Unable to find remote helper for 'https' " :

$ /path/to/bin/git clone etc.

But this will work :

$ export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/bin

$ git clone etc.

It's probably because (git) is trying to call itself but can't find itself ... that's a horrible default behaviour ... but I'm noob, so it's probably my fault anyway.