CocoaPods was not able to update the `master` repo

[chodges]

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What did you do?

Run pod update (Tried on a number of iOS projects)

What did you expected to happen?

I expected that the relevant pods would be updated (which it appears they were)

What happened instead?

It appears the relevant pods were updated to the latest version. But I'm receiving this error message:
[!] CocoaPods was not able to update the master repo. If this is an unexpected issue and persists you can inspect it running pod repo update --verbose

When I run the update in verbose mode here is what I see:

Updating spec repo master
$ /usr/bin/git pull --ff-only
From https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs
9ceea22..9a5b5cd master -> origin/master
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
Specs/ModelMapper/1.0.4/ModelMapper.podspec.json
Specs/POPOrientationNavigationVC/0.1.22/POPOrientationNavigationVC.podspec.json
Specs/SwiftSockets/0.22.2/SwiftSockets.podspec.json
Specs/eeGeo/1.0.471/eeGeo.podspec.json
Please move or remove them before you can merge.
Aborting
Updating c407c5c..9a5b5cd

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Podfile

Uncomment this line to define a global platform for your project

platform :ios, '8.0'

use_frameworks!

target 'Alarmly' do
pod 'Fabric'
pod 'Crashlytics'
pod 'Flurry-iOS-SDK', '~> 7.2'
pod 'RealmSwift', '~> 0.96'
pod 'FBSDKCoreKit', '~> 4.7'
pod 'FBSDKLoginKit', '~> 4.7'
pod 'FBSDKShareKit', '~> 4.7'
pod 'TwitterKit'
pod 'TwitterCore'
pod 'SwiftValidator', '~> 3.0'
pod 'SwiftValidators', '~> 2.0'
pod 'Eureka', '~> 1.2'
pod 'MGSwipeTableCell', '~> 1.5'
pod 'SCLAlertView', '~> 0.4'
pod 'SwiftyJSON', '~> 2.3'
pod 'TestFairy', '~> 1.5'
end

target 'AlarmlyTests' do

end

target 'AlarmlyUITests' do

end

[orta]

Looks like your specs repo was edited at some point, and now git can't update it.

I'd recommend deleting and re-creating your Specs repo: pod repo remove master and running pod setup - then ideally also following this tweet's advice

[chodges]

Thanks so much!

[j0emcginnis]

Thanks!! Fixed the same issue for me as well.

[ayestaran]

Thanks!

[d9j]

Unable get it work. After like 15 minutes of patience it fails with an error as below.

Mac-Dev:iOSPlayGround mac$ pod setup
Setting up CocoaPods master repo
                                                        [!] /usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git master

Cloning into 'master'...
error: RPC failed; curl 56 SSLRead() return error -36
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed

most likely some server side problem :-1:

[jdraths]

@LinkedHK I've got the same problem. Were you able to resolve it?

[zantoku]

this worked for me: go into your ~/.cocoapods/repos/master directory, and do a git reset --hard, then remove any untracked files shown by git status.

[jdraths]

In my case it ended up being a problem with a Cocoa Pod for Realm. I resolved it with this

[jonchui]

For me, turns out when i cd ~/.cocoapods/repos/master, it wasn't a git repository! the .git file had been removed ;(

So i found my terminal session was actually not able to clone into https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git/ b/c i ran:

git clone https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git/ and got the same error message:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com

Not sure if this is related, but it's the first time i used https://paw.cloud - after closing that, and closing my terminal and re-opening, it was fine.

[shrimantNikate]

In my case there is nothing in the ~/.cocoapods folder except .git .
solution works for me : go into your ~/.cocoapods/repos/master directory, and do a
git pull
git checkout master
then go to your project path and try to pod install or pod update.

[hannody]

Thanks, worked for me.

[maulikdhameliya]

@shrimantNikate : Thank you, it helped me update my pods

[davidfarinha]

I was getting the following error when running pod install:

Setting up CocoaPods master repo
  $ /usr/bin/git -C /Users/user/.cocoapods/repos/master fetch origin --progress
  fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
  fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

  Please make sure you have the correct access rights
  and the repository exists.
[!] Unable to add a source with url `https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git` named `master-1`.
You can try adding it manually in `/Users/user/.cocoapods/repos` or via `pod repo add`

And fixed it by adding the git remote manually inside the cocoapods master repo folder:

cd ~/.cocoapods/repos/master
git remote add origin master

[kirinzer]

thx, it's helpful

[NtemKenyor]

master

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