Upgrading git with brew gives: No such file or directory - /usr/local/Cellar/git?
git, homebrew
Solution
So I was able to solve this problem by uninstalling git twice and then reinstalled the latest version of git. This removed both the pre-installed version of git and the one that I had installed, eliminating the pathing problem. I ran:
which git
and then ran `sudo rm -rf /absolute/path/to/git`
which deleted one of the git programs that had been installed. Then I ran both commands again, but the second time `which git` returned a different path that I used with the second `sudo rm -rf /absolute/path/to/git`. Finally, I installed git using brew.
Not rocket science but it seems to have worked.
Problem
I am attempting to upgrade git. I am running into a variation of what seems to be common pathing problem with upgrading git and the git version that comes installed with Xcode. I'm new to git, and fairly new to programming in general. Please keep that in mind, thanks. I'm running OSX 10.9.5 and have Xcode 6.1.1. I followed the instructions here: blog post. When I run brew doctor I get a bunch of warnings: Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks! Warning: Python is installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework Homebrew only supports building against the System-provided Python or a brewed Python. In particular, Pythons installed to /Library can interfere with other software installs. Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted. Unexpected dylibs: /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib /usr/local/lib/libtk8.6.dylib Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted. Unexpected header files: /usr/local/include/fakemysql.h /usr/local/include/fakepq.h /usr/local/include/fakesql.h /usr/local/include/itcl.h /usr/local/include/itcl2TclOO.h /usr/local/include/itclDecls.h /usr/local/include/itclInt.h /usr/local/include/itclIntDecls.h /usr/local/include/itclMigrate2TclCore.h /usr/local/include/itclTclIntStubsFcn.h /usr/local/include/mysqlStubs.h /usr/local/include/odbcStubs.h /usr/local/include/pqStubs.h /usr/local/include/tcl.h /usr/local/include/tclDecls.h /usr/local/include/tclOO.h /usr/local/include/tclOODecls.h /usr/local/include/tclPlatDecls.h /usr/local/include/tclThread.h /usr/local/include/tclTomMath.h /usr/local/include/tclTomMathDecls.h /usr/local/include/tdbc.h /usr/local/include/tdbcDecls.h /usr/local/include/tdbcInt.h /usr/local/include/tk.h /usr/local/include/tkDecls.h /usr/local/include/tkPlatDecls.h Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted. Unexpected .pc files: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tcl.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tk.pc Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted. Unexpected static libraries: /usr/local/lib/libtclstub8.6.a /usr/local/lib/libtkstub8.6.a Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin This means that system-provided programs will be used instead of those provided by Homebrew. The following tools exist at both paths: ``` 2to3 easy_install easy_install-2.7 gcc-4.2 ``` Consider setting your PATH so that /usr/local/bin occurs before /usr/bin. Here is a one-liner: echo export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile At first I ignored these errors as per the brew message at the beginning, but when I run `brew upgrade git` I get the following: ``` Error: No such file or directory - /usr/local/Cellar/git ``` After Googling the problem I found people had solved a similar problem (same error different path specified) by editing their bash.profile, so I ran the echo command `echo export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile` I also tried ``` echo export PATH='/usr/local/Cellar/git:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile ``` and tried manually adding these export PATH commands to my `.bash_profile` using nano, but none of this seems to have helped. Any help would be appreciated?