Error on pod install

I have a working project the uses a pod file for some weeks now. When I learned that some of my pods have update I tried to 'pod install' on got this weird error

    Analyzing dependencies
    [!] Pod::Executable pull

    Updating 1337455..e9f6e93
    error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:

AeroGear-Push/0.7.0/AeroGear-Push.podspec

AeroGear/1.2.0/AeroGear.podspec

BrynKit/1.3.0/BrynKit.podspec

BrynKit/1.3.1/BrynKit.podspec

CSURITemplate/0.3/CSURITemplate.podspec

EXiLE/1.0.2/EXiLE.podspec

FlurrySDK/4.2.3/FlurrySDK.podspec

FoundationExtension/0.39.1/FoundationExtension.podspec

FoundationExtension/0.39/FoundationExtension.podspec

GCDObjects/0.0.1/GCDObjects.podspec

HTAutocompleteTextField/1.2.1/HTAutocompleteTextField.podspec

HTAutocompleteTextField/1.2.2/HTAutocompleteTextField.podspec

HTAutocompleteTextField/1.2/HTAutocompleteTextField.podspec

IDMPhotoBrowser/1.1.2/IDMPhotoBrowser.podspec

Igor/0.5.0/Igor.podspec

KFOpenWeatherMapAPI/0.2.0/KFOpenWeatherMapAPI.podspec

NGSegmentedViewController/0.1.1/NGSegmentedViewController.podspec

PPiFlatSegmentedControl/1.3/PPiFlatSegmentedControl.podspec

PiwikTracker/2.0.0/PiwikTracker.podspec

SDWebImage/3.4/SDWebImage.podspec

libwbxml/0.11.2/libwbxml.podspec

wbxml/0.0.1/wbxml.podspec

    Please move or remove them before you can merge.

    Aborting

another post suggested using the 'rm -rf ~/.cocoapods' command line but this caused my cocoapods to stop working all together for all project now which ever project I try to 'pod install' I get the 'Unable to find a specification for..' error

[!] Unable to find a specification for CorePlot (= 1.3).

Solution 1:

If you landed here on or after January 30th 2014, there is a break in CocoaPods causing this. Please read the related blog post found here: http://blog.cocoapods.org/Repairing-Our-Broken-Specs-Repository/

or do:

pod repo remove master
pod setup

Solution 2:

solved it on my own the trick was to use $sudo rm -rf ~/.cocoapods to clean the cocoapods master repo and then pod install worked without any problems.

hope this helps other people whom encountered this issue

Solution 3:

The 100% dead-work one-line command is:

sudo rm -rf ~/.cocoapods && pod setup && pod install

I created the issue on GitHub traker:#2185

And the official answer is:

This is issue which has already been fixed by @irrationalfab with commit CocoaPods/CLAide@5e023ab. So the fix should be available in the next release of CocoaPods. Just be patient