A powershell scripts that installs git tools on windows and adds it to your path

git_install_windows.ps1

# Set download URLs
$git_download_url = "http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/PortableGit-1.7.3.1-preview20101002.7z"
$7zip_download_url = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7za465.zip"

# Create Software folder
$software_folder = "$env:SystemDrive\software"
mkdir -force $software_folder 

# Create temp folder
$temp_folder  = "$env:userprofile\temp\install_git"
if (test-path("$temp_folder")) {ri -r -force "$temp_folder"}
mkdir -force $temp_folder
cd $temp_folder

# Download Portable Git and 7zip required to extract portable git
$wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.DownloadFile($git_download_url,"$temp_folder\" + $git_download_url.Split("/")[-1])
$wc.DownloadFile($7zip_download_url,"$temp_folder\" + $7zip_download_url.Split("/")[-1])

# Install 7-zip (just unzipping file to a 7zip folder)
if (test-path("$software_folder\7zip")) {ri -r -force "$software_folder\7zip"}
mkdir "$software_folder\7zip"
$shell_app=new-object -com shell.application
$zip_file = $shell_app.namespace("$temp_folder\7za465.zip")
$destination =$shell_app.namespace("$software_folder\7zip")
$destination.Copyhere($zip_file.items())

# Add 7zip to path 
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH","$env:path;$software_folder\7zip","MACHINE")
$env:path = "$env:path;$software_folder\7zip" 

# Install Portable Git
$git_archive = $git_download_url.Split("/")[-1]
if (test-path("$software_folder\git")) {ri -r -force "$software_folder\git"}
mkdir -force "$software_folder\git"
& "7za" x -y "-o$software_folder\git" "$temp_folder\$git_archive"


# Add git to path and reload path
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH","$env:path;$software_folder\git\bin","MACHINE")
$env:path = "$env:path;$software_folder\git\bin" 

# Remove temp folder
cd c:\
ri -r -force "$temp_folder"

# Display git help
cls
git help

Hi there @ASR5-BRO,

Wow - I wrote this script 12 years ago and forgot about it. We no longer need such scripts in today's day and age. Today you can just use winget. For e.g. if you look at this page in the git web site, it'll mention the following:

winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget

A much easier way to install git. Hope fully his helps instead?