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For some reason I have to run git gc --prune=now almost every day before I run a git pull so I wanted to create a git pp alias that helps me run those two commands

I added this to the users .gitconfig file

[alias] pp = 'gc --prune=now && pull'

but when I try to run it I get what it seems a sintax error, how do I fix this on windows 10

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I have read this

but I dont see my mistake

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  • You could also just create a script file named git-pp with the commands as separate lines. They will be executed by bash so they need to mention git though. Commented Jan 31, 2022 at 15:17
  • I actually thought about that approach too, but whant to learn what I'm doing wrong here Commented Jan 31, 2022 at 15:29

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Use a ! at start to indicate that bash has to execute the alias, not git itself.

Then, explicitly call git for your pull command :

git config alias.pp '!git gc --prune=now && git pull'

To use it in the .gitconfig file make sure you use double quotes ""

[alias] pp = "!git gc --prune=now && git pull"
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I have set it to pp = '!git gc --prune=now && git pull' as you mention, and still getting the same error, maybe my configuration is wrong ? Do I have to close the git command line everytime I save the .gitconfig ?
@MauricioGraciaGutierrez : the quotes are meant for the command line, not for the config file. Do you have quotes around your alias in your config file ?
LeGEC is right, this is probably a confusion because of the first draft of my answer, I should have explicitly used the git config command syntax.

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