msysgit installer is broken on vista
OK, it isn’t exactly broken, it just doesn’t know about vista’s virtual path features. This means you can run the exe as a non-admin user and it does not get installed properly.
The work around is to not run the installer as a regular use and wait for UAC to invoke itself. It never will. Instead, [...]
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