My code assumes you are running on a 64bit system. The comments should explain how it all works. When run you'll get the latest setup executable. I recommend manually installing it so you can configure it as needed.<\/p>\n
Related to this you might need a merge conflict tool. I use kdiff3. Here's similar code to download it.<\/p>\n
$k = invoke-webrequest https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/kdiff3\/files\/kdiff3\/0.9.98\/KDiff3-64bit-Setup_0.9.98-2.exe\/download -UseBasicParsing\r\n$dl = $k.links | where href -match downloads\r\n$dluri = $dl.href.split(\"?\")[0]\r\n$filename = Split-Path $dluri -Leaf\r\n$out = Join-Path $path -ChildPath $filename\r\n\r\nInvoke-WebRequest -uri $dluri -OutFile $out -UseBasicParsing\r\n\r\nget-item $out\r\n<\/pre>\nAgain, go ahead and install it manually.<\/p>\n
My last git hack is to use PowerShell to get the version. If you have git installed, you can easily run<\/p>\n
git --version\r\n<\/pre>\nIn Windows you'll get something like git version 2.14.1.windows.1. But being the PowerShell geek that I am, I wanted to display just the version number. So I used a regular expression to extract the value.<\/p>\n
$v = git --version\r\n[regex]$rx =\"(\\d+\\.){1,}\\d+\"\r\n$rx.match($v).value\r\n<\/pre>\nThis same code will also work in open source PowerShell on Linux. Although Windows users can also check the registry:<\/p>\n
Get-itemproperty HKLM:\\SOFTWARE\\GitForWindows | Select CurrentVersion,InstallPath\r\n<\/pre>\nWant to check the latest git for Windows release to know if you need to download? Use this function.<\/p>\n
Function Get-GitCurrentRelease {\r\n[cmdletbinding()]\r\nParam(\r\n[ValidateNotNullorEmpty()]\r\n[string]$Uri = \"https:\/\/api.github.com\/repos\/git-for-windows\/git\/releases\/latest\"\r\n)\r\n\r\nBegin {\r\n Write-Verbose \"[BEGIN ] Starting: $($MyInvocation.Mycommand)\" \r\n\r\n} #begin\r\n\r\nProcess {\r\n Write-Verbose \"[PROCESS] Getting current release information from $uri\"\r\n $data = Invoke-Restmethod -uri $uri -Method Get\r\n\r\n \r\n if ($data.tag_name) {\r\n [pscustomobject]@{\r\n Name = $data.name\r\n Version = $data.tag_name\r\n Released = $($data.published_at -as [datetime])\r\n }\r\n } \r\n} #process\r\n\r\nEnd {\r\n Write-Verbose \"[END ] Ending: $($MyInvocation.Mycommand)\"\r\n} #end\r\n\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
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