Not sure if this problem is related to upgrading to MacOs Sierra, but since that moment this error occurs when I run 'brew update'
→ brew update
Checking out v1.0.0 in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask...
To checkout master in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask run:
'cd /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask && git checkout master
fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'v1.0.0' at the same time.
Did you intend to checkout 'refs/tags/1.0.0' which can not be resolved as commit?
fatal: Needed a single revision
invalid upstream refs/tags/1.0.0
Checking out v1.0.0 in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/dart-lang/homebrew-dart...
To checkout master in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/dart-lang/homebrew-dart run:
'cd /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/dart-lang/homebrew-dart && git checkout master
fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'v1.0.0' at the same time.
Did you intend to checkout 'refs/tags/1.0.0' which can not be resolved as commit?
fatal: Needed a single revision
invalid upstream refs/tags/1.0.0
Checking out v1.0.0 in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core...
To checkout master in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core run:
'cd /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core && git checkout master
fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'v1.0.0' at the same time.
Did you intend to checkout 'refs/tags/1.0.0' which can not be resolved as commit?
fatal: Needed a single revision
invalid upstream refs/tags/1.0.0
I tried running
cd $(brew --prefix) && git fetch && git reset --hard origin/master
But it gives me this error:
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
I had the same problem after upgrading to Sierra.
In addition to brew --prefix
, which displays Homebrew’s install path, there’s also brew --repository
, which displays where it’s .git
directory is located.
man brew
says that claims that “for standard installs, the prefix and repository are the same directory”. Either the man page is out of date or my install isn’t “standard”, but my prefix
is /usr/local
and my repository
is /usr/local/Homebrew
.
Using the same command but with cd $(brew --repository)
worked for me:
cd $(brew --repository) && git fetch && git reset --hard origin/master
The accepted answer didn't work for me. What worked was uninstalling homebrew
and reinstalling it:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew analytics off
This command fixed the error for me:
git -C $(brew --repository homebrew/core) checkout master
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