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", 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).

There are two ways to prevent those two behaviors: Either you embed an
application manifest 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.

A recent enough MSVC compiler should already embed a working internal
manifest, but for MinGW you have to do so by hand.

Very lightly tested on Wine, where like on Windows XP it should not make
any difference.

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

[js: simplified the embedding dramatically by reusing Git for Windows'
existing Windows resource file, removed the optional (and dubious)
processorArchitecture attribute of the manifest's assemblyIdentity
section.]

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

compat/win32/git.manifest

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
+        <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Git" version="0.0.0.1" />
+        <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
+                <security>
+                        <requestedPrivileges>
+                                <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" />
+                        </requestedPrivileges>
+                </security>
+        </trustInfo>
+</assembly>

git.rc

@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@ BEGIN
     VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
   END
 END
+
+1 RT_MANIFEST "compat/win32/git.manifest"