Error on pod install

Question

I have a working project the uses a pod file for some weeks now. When I learned that some of my pods have update I tried to \'pod install\' on got this weird error

Answer 1

If you need a clean master spec repo you can try

cd ~/.cocoapods/master
git reset --hard

or if you're on CocoaPods 0.23+, use ~/.cocoapods/repos/master.

Answer 2

The 100% dead-work one-line command is:

sudo rm -rf ~/.cocoapods && pod setup && pod install

I created the issue on GitHub traker:#2185

And the official answer is:

This is issue which has already been fixed by @irrationalfab with commit CocoaPods/CLAide@5e023ab. So the fix should be available in the next release of CocoaPods. Just be patient

Answer 3

Just to share my own fix for this issue:

Since this is a git issue, you can use simple git commands to resolve it (See @AdamSharp's post). What worked for me was running

git clean -d -f

in ~/.cocoapods/repos/master. This recursively removes any untracked files and directories from the repo. I encourage you to run:

git clean -d -f --dry-run

Before you actually execute anything so you can see what it would do. Should it break your CocoaPods master repo, simply delete ~/.cocoapods/repos/master and run pod repo update.

Answer 4

when my projects get big and I have a large pod file, I run into this problem quite a bit.

My solution is as follows :

pod repo remove master
pod setup
pod install

Answer 5

solved it on my own the trick was to use $sudo rm -rf ~/.cocoapods to clean the cocoapods master repo and then pod install worked without any problems.

hope this helps other people whom encountered this issue

Answer 6

You are going to have to manually delete any local copies of the Specs repository and re-clone the new version of the Specs repository. You can do that with the following commands: $ sudo rm -fr ~/.cocoapods/repos/master $ pod setup