On Windows, you can embed a "manifest" into an executable that changes behavior in subtle (and not so subtle) ways. Let's embed one, to be able to define precisely what behavior we want. Cesar Eduardo Barros (1): mingw: embed a manifest to trick UAC into Doing The Right Thing compat/win32/git.manifest | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ git.rc | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 compat/win32/git.manifest base-commit: aa25c82427ae70aebf3b8f970f2afd54e9a2a8c6 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-214%2Fdscho%2Fmingw-manifest-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-214/dscho/mingw-manifest-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/214 -- gitgitgadget