Comments on: Git and Windows Vista

By: tOMPSON’s blog » git under Windows 7

tOMPSON’s blog » git under Windows 7 — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:49:51 +0000

[...] are already some posts out there discussing this issue which git in cygwin has under Windows Vista. It will be no surprise [...]

By: Karl M. Davis

Karl M. Davis — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:14:49 +0000

Just an FYI for anyone that runs into this: if you create the .manifest and still get “permission denied” or “This operation requires elevation” when running the cygwin executable, “touch” the executable to change its modification date. It seems the executable’s .manifest (or lack thereof) gets cached– even across a reboot for me.

By: Kevin Broadey

Kevin Broadey — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:38:05 +0000

@Kevin Broadey
Blog won’t let me post XML – get it from here – http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kevin.broadey/git-update-index.exe.manifest.txt

By: Kevin Broadey

Kevin Broadey — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:33:38 +0000

Something ate the XML. Try again...

By: Kevin Broadey

Kevin Broadey — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:31:50 +0000

You can create a separate git-update-index.exe.manifest file in your /usr/sbin/git-core directory rather than messing with the Microsoft Manifest tool. The file below works for me. You will need to create similar files for git-update-index.exe and git-update-server-info.exe too.

Don’t assume I have god-like powers – I found this solution elsewhere on the internet (okay, Google found it for me!)

The important bit is setting requestedExecutionLevel level=”asInvoker” which side-steps Vista’s automatic installer detection heuristics.

Here’s an article about installer detection – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx

And here’s a link to the XML manifest format – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx

By: Martin Carpella

Martin Carpella — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:25:26 +0000

Hmm, maybe this was udpated in Vista with SP1? The detection of installers was revised as far as I read on the net, so this would have an effect on your observation. Being on the system partition or not should have no effect on the UAC being triggered by setup programs.

Thanks for sharing your observation!

By: pH

pH — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:19:49 +0000

Hi,

I just ran into this post, not sure if it’s fixed. What I did was to run cygwin on my non-OS partition (ie. D:\ or E:\) and it works for me. Vista is VERY protective of its OS partition and file operations there by “guests” are not welcomed. I didn’t need to do anything to my UAC (it’s still running), etc.

Hope this would help someone…

By: Martin Carpella

Martin Carpella — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:17:41 +0000

yes, cool idea, didn’t think of this. Thanks for sharing!

By: EGarcia

EGarcia — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:10:21 +0000

oops… and git-update-ref.exe

By: EGarcia

EGarcia — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:47:43 +0000

After sharing your interest in ‘git’, reading your article and rejecting all solutions you presented, I wanted to share a solution which worked for me. Using Microsoft’s Manifest Tool, I added a manifest to git-update-index.exe which eliminated my git + UAC: ‘Permission denied’ problems.