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Error when brew updating, unable to unlink old README.md? #2906
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I ran brew update
, and got this error message:
remote: Counting objects: 292, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (233/233), done.
remote: Total 239 (delta 165), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (239/239), 31.34 KiB, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (165/165), completed with 45 local objects.
From http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
error: unable to unlink old 'README.md' (Permission denied)
Updating 959edff..6cf7c80
Error: Failed while executing git pull http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git master
Trying the command again, I get:
From http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
share/man/man1/brew.1
Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb
Library/Formula/xpdf.rb
Library/Formula/wine.rb
Library/Formula/webalizer.rb
Library/Formula/tofrodos.rb
Library/Formula/ssldump.rb
Library/Formula/squirrel.rb
Library/Formula/sphinx.rb
Library/Formula/sleepnow.rb
Library/Formula/skipfish.rb
Library/Formula/schroedinger.rb
Library/Formula/rebar.rb
Library/Formula/rabbitmq.rb
Library/Formula/qdbm.rb
Library/Formula/pure.rb
Library/Formula/pkg-config.rb
Library/Formula/parallel.rb
Library/Formula/openvpn.rb
Library/Formula/mcl.rb
Library/Formula/lilypond.rb
Library/Formula/libvirt.rb
Library/Formula/libsamplerate.rb
Library/Formula/libao.rb
Library/Formula/ledit.rb
Library/Formula/jack.rb
Library/Formula/gst-plugins-good.rb
Library/Formula/geeqie.rb
Library/Formula/freealut.rb
Library/Formula/fontforge.rb
Library/Formula/ddclient.rb
Library/Formula/ddate.rb
Library/Formula/d-bus.rb
Library/Formula/cscope.rb
Library/Formula/cppdom.rb
Library/Formula/celt.rb
Library/Formula/cd-discid.rb
Library/Formula/cairomm.rb
Library/Formula/bsdiff.rb
Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md
Library/Contributions/examples/brew-audit.rb
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
Library/Formula/zookeeper.rb
Library/Formula/zdelta.rb
Library/Formula/vip.rb
Library/Formula/vcodex.rb
Library/Formula/sshfs-fuse.rb
Library/Formula/nickle.rb
Library/Formula/isc-dhcp.rb
Library/Formula/gst-plugins-ugly.rb
Library/Formula/gst-plugins-bad.rb
Library/Formula/go-gui.rb
Library/Formula/fluxus.rb
Library/Formula/exodriver.rb
Library/Formula/djvulibre.rb
Library/Formula/cdrdao.rb
Library/Formula/c10t.rb
Library/Formula/blahtexml.rb
Library/Formula/bigloo.rb
Library/Formula/aws-iam-tools.rb
Library/Formula/aget.rb
Library/Aliases/sshfs
Library/Aliases/liblabjackusb
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Updating 959edff..6cf7c80
Aborting
Error: Failed while executing git pull http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git master
I'm not sure what to do, to get back to simply pulling from mxcl/homebrew.
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