Brew Update not working after mac 10.9
First time running brew since 10.9 upgrade.
From the output below, should I just remove Library/Formula/ant.rb and Library/Formula/apple-gcc42.rb? Also, unclear why git pull is failing. Thanks for any help
525 [projects]$ brew --config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.4
ORIGIN: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git
HEAD: 27c26faf7b958de6028ad55be8ccc5a57b094d3f
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
CPU: 8-core 64-bit ivybridge
OS X: 10.9-x86_64
Xcode: 5.0.2
GCC-4.2: build 5666
LLVM-GCC: build 0
Clang: 5.0 build 500
X11: N/A
System Ruby: 1.8.7-358
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/bin/python
Ruby: /Users/*****/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby
526 [projects]$ brew update
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
Library/Formula/ant.rb
Library/Formula/apple-gcc42.rb
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Aborting
Error: Failure while executing: git pull -q origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
Solution 1:
This fixed it for me
cd `brew --prefix`/Homebrew
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/master
brew update worked fine after that
Solution 2:
Solution
You might still find..
brew update not working after
git pull origin master
Here what you need to do.
cd /usr/local
git pull origin master
brew install git
Now you might already have git on your System, but what this will do it that now.
Your broken brew update will automatically be updated before at first run..
Here is the link to the origin issue in HomeBrew. brew stuck
Solution 3:
My brew update was hanging and doing nothing. I am on OSX 10.12.5 and none of the above worked for me and I have no .git in usr/local
, only in usr/local/Homebrew
.
I ran brew update --debug --verbose
and brew update
and that fixed the issue, see this issue: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/895
Solution 4:
I simply removed the .git
directory inside of the /usr/local
directory, then ran the command brew update
.