brew update with Git 1.7.4+; Fixes Homebrew/homebrew#5128
Behaviour for git checkout was changed such that the update would fail because it refused to checkout files on to existing files in the working directory. This was bad behaviour anyway, we should make efforts to keep any local modifications to the Homebrew checkout. Everything is neatly resolved if we just do a --soft reset. Closes Homebrew/homebrew#6017.
Homebrew
Features and usage are summarized on the homepage.
Quick Install to /usr/local
This script will prompt for confirmation before it does anything:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
Afterwards, install Xcode.
Umm… I thought I could install it anywhere?
Indeed, you can. Refer to our complete installation instructions.
Dude! Just give me a one-liner!
Okay then, but please note this installs Homebrew as root and we recommend against that.
curl -LsSf https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | sudo /usr/bin/tar xvz -C/usr/local --strip 1
But what packages are available?
Before installing you can browse the Formula folder on GitHub.
After installing, you can use brew search to find packages or brew server
to browse packages off of a local web server.
More Documentation
The wiki is your friend.
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