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Good day!

I'm not familiar with Powershell at all, and I want to make a script that excecutes every night at 2AM a git pull command in a given directory location. So basically the script must "cd" to that location and then execute "git pull".

I know Windows have the scheduler in which you can call the script, I just have no idea how to make that script.

Thanks in advance.

Warm regards.

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cd in Powershell an alias for Set-Location which is cd, and if the Git command line executable is in your path, you can call it from Powershell as well.

cd C:\path\to\myrepo.git\
git pull

or

Set-Location C:\path\to\myrepo.git\
Git pull

The second solution is more idiomatic for Powershell. And remember, if the path to your repo contains spaces, you must put it between quotes.

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  • Thanks for your quick answer. One of those 2 options must be saved as .ps1 file and be executed with Windows Task Scheduler?
    – Alain
    Jul 5, 2017 at 14:49
  • Yes. You just need to be sure that Git is in your path. If you don't know, open a Powershell prompt and type git --version.
    – Nathan.Eilisha Shiraini
    Jul 5, 2017 at 15:24

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