Error on "sudo pod install"

Question

I already have one project working with a podfile.

I wanted to add a Podfile on an old project but I got this error on sudo pod install

Error:

Resolving dependencies of `./Podfile'
Updating spec repositories
[!] git pull
Updating 35bbbaf..8b42708
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:

AFXAuthClient/1.0.4/AFXAuthClient.podspec

Please move or remove them before you can merge.

Aborting

It's weird because I don't use AFXAuthClient on my project, and I never used it.

Here's my Podfile:

platform :ios, '5.0'
pod 'TTTAttributedLabel',  '~> 1.6.0'
pod 'ECSlidingViewController',  '~> 0.9.0'

I tried to made without success:

gem install cocoapods
pod setup

NB: I get the same error with pod setup

Answer 1

From the command line run rm -rf ~/.cocoapods

Then run pod install again. You shouldn't need the sudo.

This look like it's caused because there was a change to a spec and it's conflicting with running a git pull

Answer 2

If you're seeing an error like this, it might be because CocoaPods had to force-push their repo. They suggest:

pod repo remove master
pod setup