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[PATCH 0/1] windows: embed a manifest

From
Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 27, 2019, 08:49 UTC
Message-ID
<pull.214.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

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
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