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Hey, I use PowerShell on Windows a lot. Some advice that I hope helps for installing posh-got specifically is to “git clone” the posh-git repo. Then in your $Profile.CurrentUserAllHosts do an Import-Module for the PSM.

I know all this is personal and subjective. I think using git to manage this is pretty easy and safe. If and when I want to update it’s as simple as doing a git pull in my local repo of posh-git and reloading the shell.

If the new version is broken (has never happened yet but ya know.. in case) just checkout the previous one.

I have found using git, the powershell user profile and modifying my user path when necessary is the best way of managing dev dependencies on Windows.

I also understand why people want this all abstracted away from them in a package manager.




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