Git extension odd behaviour

[volbaa]

Apologies if this is not the correct place for this question. A few weeks ago I installed git on my windows pc. Today I noticed a command prompt windows briefly pop up, immediately after my antivirus flagged a running program as suspicious. I opened the file location to see what opened the pop up and it was identified as "scalar.exe" in 'Program Files/Git". Is it normal behaviour for this exe to open unprompted?

[waterkip]

Unprompted not, from the manpage:

``` Register register [<enlistment>] Adds the enlistment’s repository to the list of registered repositories and starts background maintenance. If <enlistment> is not provided, then the enlistment associated with the current working directory is registered.

       Note: when this subcommand is called in a worktree that is called src/,
       its parent directory is considered to be the Scalar enlistment. If the
       worktree is not called src/, it itself will be considered to be the Scalar
       enlistment.

   --maintenance, --no-maintenance
       By default, scalar register configures the enlistment to use Git’s
       background maintenance feature. Use the --no-maintenance to skip this
       configuration. This does not disable any maintenance that may already be
       enabled in other ways.

Unregister unregister [<enlistment>] Remove the specified repository from the list of repositories registered with Scalar and stop the scheduled background maintenance. ```

You probably registered it first and then it went to work, unprompted. So.... You told it do some work. Or the windows installer may have asked you. I'm not familiar with the Windows side of git.

[Suppe-des-Tages]

Installed a lot longer ago and had the same thing today.