Andrew Schwartzmeyer ca1055c83c Add Frequently Asked Questions to documentation

Addresses some PowerShell, build, and Git questions.

2016-04-20 16:25:58 -07:00

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PowerShell

This repository is "Project Magrathea": Open PowerShell on GitHub, for Linux, Windows (.NET Core and Full), and OS X. It is built using the .NET Command Line Interface to support targetting every flavor of PowerShell. It is a collaborative effort among many teams:

Full PowerShell
Core PowerShell
Open Source Technology Center
.NET Foundation

Build Status

Platform	`master`
Ubuntu 14.04
OS X 10.11
Windows

Get PowerShell

	Linux	Windows .NET Core	Windows .NET Full	OS X	PSRP
Build from Source	Instructions	Instructions	Instructions	Instructions	Instructions
Get Binaries	Releases	Artifacts	Artifacts	Releases	TBD

Building summary: Start-PSBuild from the module ./PowerShellGitHubDev.psm1 (self-host on Linux / OS X)

See Linux releases and Windows artifacts installation instructions.

Team coordination

If you encounter any problems, see the known issues, search the issues, and if all else fails, open a new issue.

Obtain the source code

Setup Git

Install Git, the version control system.

See the Contributing Guidelines for more Git information, such as our installation instructions, contributing rules, and Git best practices.

Download source code

Clone this repository. It is a "superproject" and has a number of other repositories embedded within it as submodules. Please see the contributing guidelines and learn about submodules. To make things easy, we can just clone recursively.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell.git

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