Homebrew Mac Update Issues

Question

This is something that I\'ve noticed starting about 2 days ago. In my past experience, Homebrew would always have daily updates. I would always type the command brew u

Answer 1

According to https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#update-bug

If Homebrew was updated on Aug 10-11th 2016 and brew update always says Already up-to-date. you need to run

cd $(brew --repo); git fetch; git reset --hard origin/master; brew update

Answer 2

Homebrew is basically a git directory, so you can cd into the directory and perform a git fetch followed by a git pull

If you are on default config:

cd /usr/local && git pull origin master

Answer 3

Please run to debug what happens when update

brew update --debug --verbose

brew update --force

My reference from this comment