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

Keith Smiley · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-20 15:16:19Z

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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

answered Feb 20, 2013 at 15:16

Keith Smiley

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Bimawa Over a year ago

I too can't merge after installed new version cocoapods, this helped me. Thx Keith!

user1409935 Over a year ago

hi , i am confused with your statement ,can you help me what is mean of "This look like it's caused because there was a change to a spec and it's conflicting with running a git pull" your answer ?

Keith Smiley Over a year ago

When the pod tool is updating its sources with the master specs repo it runs a git pull and it failed while it was doing that, most likely because something had been changed, probably not intentionally causing the pull to fail because it would otherwise be overwritten.

Piper Over a year ago

The team is wrestling with a bug in libgit2 -blog.cocoapods.org/Repairing-Our-Broken-Specs-Repository

Keith Smiley Over a year ago

That was a while ago. Hopefully we're past that at this point.

Jesse Rusak · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-09 23:32:56Z

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

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