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Bryan Dady edited this page Apr 26, 2015 · 13 revisions

Welcome to the posh-git wiki!

install posh-git by

Installing the GitHub client for Windows: GitHub client for Windows

The GitHub for Windows setup will create shortcuts to "Git Shell" which is a PowerShell console, with the posh-git module loaded.

When installed with the GitHub client, the posh-git module does not get installed to the typical PS Module locations. Instead, it's placed in the user's Local AppData path, with the Gitub client. For example: $env:userprofile\AppData\Local\GitHub\PoshGit_869d4c5159797755bc04749db47b166136e59132\posh-git.psm1

** To check the location of your own posh-git module, you can run the following statement from within Git Shell: (Get-Module -Name posh-git).Path

Here is an example of how the posh-git module looks, in a PowerShell console PowerShell posh-git example

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