chocolatey

What's the difference between Chocolatey's Git packages?


Chocolatey's package repository shows two popular packages for installing Git:

What's the difference between these two packages? How does one decide whether to use:

choco install git

or:

choco install git.install

Is one a superset of the other?


Solution

  • According to this forum thread the .install suffix is a discoverability artefact. Just use the shorter name:

    choco install git