When to use Push-Location versus Set-Location?

Question

At first sight Set-Location and Push-Location PowerShell cmdlets look alike when it comes to changing the current directory.

What are use cases for each? When would one choose to use one over the other?

Answer 1

They will both change the working directory but using Push-Location will add the current working directory to the top of a stack before changing to the new working directory. You can then use Pop-Location to traverse back down the stack through the previous working directories.

Set-Location will just change the working directory in the same way that cd would.

Set-Location = cd
Push-Location = pushd
Pop-Location = popd