So what could be the error leading to exit code 1? Almost the same happens for git-fetch. I downgraded to git version 2.47.1.windows.2 and after that tried the same again. A difference is that now I additionally I get logs like this at the top $ git pull remote: Enumerating objects: 269, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (143/143), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (41/41), done. remote: Total 269 (delta 89), reused 87 (delta 87), pack-reused 126 Receiving objects: 100% (269/269), 59.37 KiB | 2.58 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (94/94), completed with 51 local objects.