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 execute [...]
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 [...]