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Investigate need for Merge-MarkdownHelp

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell

Research direction

Start by gathering the requirements from the Office teams that use Merge-MarkdownHelp for PowerShell content. Document the required behavior and use cases, then determine whether those requirements justify a new implementation; the issue provides no files, tests, or entry points to inspect.

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Description

Merge-MarkdownHelp is used by the Office teams for their PowerShell content. We need to understand the requirements for this before commit to a new implementation.

Dominant language
C#
Stars
870
Forks
166
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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