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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Cesar Eduardo Barros	fe90397604	mingw: embed a manifest to trick UAC into Doing The Right Thing On Windows >= Vista, not having an application manifest with a requestedExecutionLevel can cause several kinds of confusing behavior. The first and more obvious behavior is "Installer Detection" of the "User Account Control" (also known as "UAC") feature, where Windows sometimes decides (by looking at things like the file name and even sequences of bytes within the executable) that an executable is an installer and should run elevated (causing the well-known popup dialog to appear). In Git's context, subcommands such as "git patch-id" or "git update-index" fall prey to this behavior. The second and more confusing behavior is "File Virtualization". It means that when files are written without having write permission, it does not fail (as expected), but they are instead redirected to somewhere else. When the files are read, the original contents are returned, though, not the ones that were just written somewhere else. Even more confusing, not all write accesses are redirected; Trying to write to write-protected .exe files, for example, will fail instead of redirecting. In addition to being unwanted behavior, File Virtualization causes dramatic slowdowns in Git (see for instance http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=320). A third unwanted behavior of Windows >= Vista is that it lies about the Windows version when calling `GetWindowsVersionEx()`. There are two ways to prevent these unwanted behaviors: Either you embed an application manifest (which really is an XML document conforming to a specific schema) within all your executables, or you add an external manifest (a file with the same name followed by `.manifest`) to all your executables. Since Git's builtins are hardlinked (or copied), it is simpler and more robust to embed a manifest. Recent enough MSVC compilers already embed a working internal manifest, and building with mingw-w64 (which is the case in Git for Windows' SDK) does it, too, but for MinGW you have to do so by hand. In any case, it is better to be explicit about this manifest, that way changes in the compiler toolchain won't surprise us (as mingw-w64 once did when it broke `GetWindowsVersionEx()` by mistake). References: - New UAC Technologies for Windows Vista http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx - Create and Embed an Application Manifest (UAC) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	6 years ago
Johannes Schindelin	39bb86b4e5	mingw: include the full version information in the resources This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/723 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	7 years ago
Johannes Sixt	b594c975c7	Makefile: Fix compilation of Windows resource file If the git version number consists of less than three period separated numbers, then the Windows resource file compilation issues a syntax error: $ touch git.rc $ make V=1 git.res GIT_VERSION = 1.9.rc0 windres -O coff \ -DMAJOR=1 -DMINOR=9 -DPATCH=rc0 \ -DGIT_VERSION="\\\"1.9.rc0\\\"" git.rc -o git.res C:\msysgit\msysgit\mingw\bin\windres.exe: git.rc:2: syntax error make: *** [git.res] Error 1 $ Note that -DPATCH=rc0. The values passed via -DMAJOR=, -DMINOR=, and -DPATCH= are used in FILEVERSION and PRODUCTVERSION statements, which expect up to four numeric values. These version numbers are intended for machine consumption. They are typically inspected by installers to decide whether a file to be installed is newer than one that exists on the system, but are not used for much else. We can be pretty certain that there are no tools that look at these version numbers, not even the installer of Git for Windows does. Therefore, to fix the syntax error, fill in only the first two numbers, which we are guaranteed to find in Git version numbers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Acked-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>	11 years ago
Pat Thoyts	ce39c2e04c	Provide a Windows version resource for the git executables. Embeds the git version and description into the git executable thus implementing the request in issue #5. Acked-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> Acked-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>	12 years ago