In this release:

• Added support for environment variables to be use to control configuration and behavior.
• Added the ability to ignore system and/or local configuration settings via an environmental variable.
• Added the ability to enable tracing to console or a file via environmental variable.
  • This means tracing can now being before configuration is read giving a more useful information when diagnosing issues.
• Tracing now matches Git's format and can be safely and meaningfully interleaved with GIT_TRACE into a file or onto the console.
• New documentation model has been adopted. Instead of putting all content into README.md, the content is now spread out between the README file and the Docs/ folder.
• New help documents for GCM and Askpass are shipped as HTML with the installer. This means the GCM's help can now be reached via git help credential-manager and git credential-manager --help.
  • Includes a new build-docs.cmd build script which safely depends on Pandoc.
• Removed dependency on the deprecated VSTS static Identity Service and now, correctly, route through VSTS Location Service to acquire the correct URI for the Identity Service.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where SourceTree would insert duplicate environmental variables and the GCM would fail to handle the duplication gracefully.
• Fixed an issue where %HOME% was an unexpected directory causing the GCM to not find Git's global configuration file.
• Fixed an issue where Git's system and portable configuration files could not be read correctly.

To install the Git Credential Manager, download and double-click the GCMW-1.7.0.exe installer. It is that easy, it will even install Git for Windows 2.10.0 and the Microsoft .Net Framework for you if necessary.

For non-installation or custom installation needs, download the gcmw-v1.7.0.zip archive and expand its contents. Use the included install.cmd or options provided via git-credential-manager install to complete setup.

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