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Expand Up @@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ To use the GCM along with git installed with `pacman` in an MSYS2 environment, s
git config --global credential.helper manager
```

### Installation for Cygwin environment

To use the GCM along with git installed within Cygwin environment, [download a release zip](https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/releases) and extract the contents into `/usr/libexec/git-core`. Then run:

```shell
git config --global credential.helper manager
```
…as usual. Please review [Docs/Configuration.md](Docs/Configuration.md) for all configuration options, especially the [modal prompt](Docs/Configuration.md#modalprompt) one, since GCM will unlikely be able to read passwords from Cygwin terminal.

## How to use

You don't. It [magically](https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/issues/31) works when credentials are needed. For example, when pushing to [Azure DevOps](https://dev.azure.com), it automatically opens a window and initializes an oauth2 flow to get your token.
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