Comment 21 for bug 305006

> In the meantime, you can use "bzr [un]shelve1" from bzrtools (if you have a 'patch.exe' in your PATH).

Note that on Vista (and presumably Win7), GNU patch will always trigger UAC simply because it's called "patch.exe".

You have to go through some shenanigans editing some of it's internal resources to contain a manifest that tells Vista not to freak out about it.

This page has some pointers where to go
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/533939/how-to-prevent-vista-from-requiring-elevation-on-patch-exe

Here's the SF bug about it (dr_barnowl is my scary alter-ego)
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1890860&group_id=23617&atid=379173