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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...
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