title: Initializing an Anaconda-Project fails if .git is present
body: <p>I decided to try out the relatively new Anaconda-Project functionality of Anaconda. Did a fresh install of the latest version of Anaconda (v5.0.1) on my Windows 7 machine and started following this guide:
  <a href="http://anaconda-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/getting-started.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://anaconda-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide/getting-started.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I created a new directory and created a Git repository for it, then opened Anaconda Prompt, navigated to the directory and typed <code>anaconda-project init</code> which resulted in this error message:</p>
  
  <p><code>Failed to run 'git ls-files'; [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
  Unable to load the project.</code></p>
  
  <p>If I navigate to an empty directory with no .git folder and run the same command, the anaconda-project.yml file is created as expected and I don't get the error.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea why trying to initialize an anaconda-project in a git repo doesn't work? In case it is important, I typically create my Git repository on Github or BitBucket and then clone it locally using GitKraken.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>