Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> > > > > --- a/.gitignore >> > > > > +++ b/.gitignore >> > > > > @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ >> > > > > *.ipdb >> > > > > *.dll >> > > > > .vs/ >> > > > > -/Debug/ >> > > > > -/Release/ >> > > > > +*.manifest >> > > > This new line ignores the tracked file 'compat/win32/git.manifest' >> > > > that was added fairly recently in fe90397604 (mingw: embed a manifest >> > > > to trick UAC into Doing The Right Thing, 2019-06-27). >> > > > >> > > > I wonder whether that's intentional or accidental. > > This was an oversight of mine, my apologies. That line should go. Good to see people finding glitches in topics that have graduated to 'master' not so long ago. It would have been even nicer if we found them while in 'next', but we are all human ;-) > More precisely, manifest files are something specific to Windows, where > you can embed metadata in an executable. Visual Studio auto-generated it > under certain circumstances, but recent versions seem not to do that > anymore. I expect somebody who knows Windows .manifest better than I do to come up with a one-liner patch with a single paragraph log message. Or it can just be a part of a larger series that is the next batch of Windows updates. Thanks.
