some personal, more technical – by Thomas Einwaller
There are already some posts out there discussing this issue which git in cygwin has under Windows Vista. It will be no surprise if I tell you that the same problem still exists under Windows 7. Microsofts UAC looks for executables with “install”, “update” or “setup” in their name and requires user account elevation to [...]
Cygwin is one of the first things I install on my Windows systems and lately I added some more tools to my cygwin setup for the use of distributed SCM systems. Luckily both mercurial and git are included in the cygwin packages and I hope I find the time within the next days to write [...]