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POBrew update failed: untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge
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copied!<p>Trying to update Homebrew with <code>brew update</code> I got the following error</p> <pre><code>error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwrittenby merge: Library/Formula/argp-standalone.rb Library/Formula/cocot.rb Please move or remove them before you can merge. Aborting Updating e088818..5909e2c Error: Failed while executing git pull origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master </code></pre> <p>I found a blog post by someone who experienced a similar problem after having installed Mountain Lion (which I did this week too). He explains how he removed the files referred to in the error message</p> <pre><code>I removed these files: $ cd $(brew --prefix) $ rm cocot.rb However, removing these files didn't help with the brew update. Instead I had to manually update brew through git: $ cd $(brew --prefix) $ git fetch origin $ git reset --hard origin/master $ brew update Already up-to-date. </code></pre> <p>Assuming those instructions are correct (which I maybe shouldn't assume), I tried to follow these instructions and do </p> <pre><code> $ cd $(brew --prefix) $ rm cocot.rb </code></pre> <p>However, it said 'file doesn't exist' when I tried to rm cocot.rb</p> <p>One thing I'm not sure about is the <code>cd $(brew --prefix)</code> Are those the exact words I type or do I have to replace prefix with something? the cd was successful, so I'm assuming it was correct -- it moved me into /usr/local, but there was no file to remove. Contents of /usr/local are</p> <pre><code>Cellar clamXav git mysql var Library doc heroku mysql-5.5.15-osx10.6-x86_64 README.md etc include rvm bin foreman lib share </code></pre> <p>At any rate, do you know how I can fix the 'brew update'</p> <p>Update: After removing the files according to favoretti's instructions and trying <code>chown -R <your_username> $(brew --prefix)/.git</code>, I got the following error running <code>brew update</code></p> <pre><code>error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge: Library/Aliases/gperftools Library/Aliases/hashdeep Library/Aliases/htop Library/Aliases/nodejs Library/Aliases/ocio Library/Aliases/oiio Library/Aliases/pgrep Library/Aliases/pkill Library/Aliases/qt4 Library/Aliases/twolame Library/Aliases/wxwidgets Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-aspell-dictionaries Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-beer.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-dirty.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-graph Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-grep Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-leaves.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-linkapps.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-ls-taps.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-man Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-md5-to-sha1 Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-mirror-check.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-pull.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-readall.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-server Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-services.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-switch.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-test-bot.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-tests.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-unpack.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-which.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/git Library/Contributions/cmds/svn Library/ENV/4.3/apr-1-config Library/ENV/4.3/bsdmake Library/ENV/4.3/c++ Library/ENV/4.3/c89 Library/ENV/4.3/c99 Library/ENV/4.3/cc Library/ENV/4.3/clang Library/ENV/4.3/clang++ Library/ENV/4.3/cpp Library/ENV/4.3/g++ Library/ENV/4.3/gcc Library/ENV/4.3/git Library/ENV/4.3/i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 Library/ENV/4.3/i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 Library/ENV/4.3/ld Library/ENV/4.3/llvm-g++ Library/ENV/4.3/llvm-g++-4.2 Library/ENV/4.3/llvm-gcc Library/ENV/4.3/llvm-gcc-4.2 Library/ENV/4.3/make Library/ENV/4.3/mig Library/ENV/4.3/sed Library/ENV/4.3/svn Library/ENV/4.3/xcrun Library/ENV/libsuperenv.rb Library/ENV/pkgconfig/leopard/libcrypto.pc Library/ENV/pkgconfig/leopard/libcurl.pc Library/ENV/pkgconfig/mountain_lion/libcurl.pc Library/ENV/pkgconfig/mountain_lion/libexslt.pc Library/ENV/pkgconfig/mountain_lion/libxml-2.0.pc Library/ENV/pkgconfig/mountain_lion/libxslt.pc Library/Formula/abcl.rb Library/Formula/abcmidi.rb Library/Formula/aiccu.rb Library/Formula/akka.rb Library/Formula/alac.rb Library/Formula/alure.rb Library/Formula/appledoc.rb Library/Formula/arangodb.rb Library/Formula/argp-standalone.rb Library/Formula/argtable.rb Library/Formula/autopano-sift-c.rb Library/Formula/avian.rb Library/Formula/avidemux.rb Library/Formula/avro-cpp.rb Library/Formula/aws-cloudsearch.rb Library/Formula/aws-sns-cli.rb Library/Formula/backupninja.rb Library/Formula/bact.rb Library/Formula/bam.rb Library/Formula/basex.rb Library/Formula/berkeley-db4.rb Library/Formula/bind.rb Library/Formula/blazeblogger.rb Library/Formula/bochs.rb Library/Formula/boost149.rb Library/Formula/bsdconv.rb Library/Formula/bsdmake.rb Library/Formula/buildapp.rb Library/Formula/bup.rb Library/Formula/byacc.rb Library/Formula/cadubi.rb Library/Formula/camellia.rb Library/Formula/casperjs.rb Library/Formula/ccextractor.rb Library/Formula/cconv.rb Library/Formula/cdo.rb Library/Formula/cdpr.rb Library/Formula/cgvg.rb Library/Formula/checkstyle.rb Library/Formula/chordii.rb Library/Formula/chruby.rb Library/Formula/cifer.rb Library/Formula/clhep.rb Library/Formula/cntlm.rb Library/Formula/cocot.rb Library/Formula/cogl.rb Library/Formula/collada-dom.rb Library/Formula/crash.rb Library/Formula/crossroads.rb Library/Formula/crosstool-ng.rb Library/Formula/css-crush.rb Library/Formula/csync.rb Library/Formula/ctemplate.rb Library/Formula/curlftpfs.rb Library/Formula/cutter.rb Library/Formula/cvsutils.rb Library/Formula/darkstat.rb Library/Formula/darner.rb Library/Formula/dart.rb Library/Formula/dasm.rb Library/Formula/debianutils.rb Library/Formula/dfc.rb Library/Formula/dgtal.rb Library/Formula/dhcping.rb Library/Formula/di.rb Library/Formula/dmtx-utils.rb Library/Formula/drip.rb Library/Formula/dsniff.rb Library/Fo Aborting Updating e088818..c1fbc29 Error: Failed while executing git pull origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master </code></pre>

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