posh-git: the only GIT command line tool I use

Installing posh-git

To install posh-git for Windows Powershell. With the Powershell command line, execute the following command:

PowerShellGet\Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser

If you have never installed a module before with Powershell, you may be asked to install the NuGet package as well.

After installing posh-git you will want to add it to your Powershell profile so it will load each time you start the Powershell tool. Run the following command:

Add-PoshGitToProfile

With posh-git installed, you will get some very handy color coding and helpful tab commands to help auto completing your commands. For example you can type: git st and it will auto complete to git stash. Extremely useful, time saving stuff.

The color coding is great as well:

• Blue - Your local copy is the same as the remote branch
• Green - Your local copy is ahead of the remote branch (you have something to commit)
• Red - Your local copy is behind the remote branch (you have something to pull)
• Yellow - Your local copy and the remote branch have a conflict that needs resolving

There are also a variety of numbers telling you about added, modified, deleted files, etc. All-in-all a great tool for every day GIT users like myself.

Be sure you have also installed Git for Windows so git commands are available in the Powershell console.

Published on Feb 13, 2019

Tags: Github | git | posh-git