Upgrading Oh My Zsh gives me 'not a git repository' error

Question

Since I upgrade my OSX to El Capitan when I want to update Oh My Zsh upgrade_oh_my_zsh I got the following error:

Upgrading Oh My Zsh
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
There was an error updating. Try again later?

I never used git before, searching this fatal error on the internet they advice to do git init in the /.oh-my-zsh folder. After running this command a new fatal error occur when I try to run upgrade_oh_my_zsh again.

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.

I don't know if it has anything to do with with it but when I open the terminal (iTerm2) I also got this notification:

/Users/peter/.zshrc:1: command not found: Path

Anyone has experience with this or knows a solution for my problem?

Travis · Accepted Answer · 2022-12-14T15:22:50.230

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Looks like your git repo was removed from oh-my-zsh? You can re-add the remote and update to the latest version of Zsh by running:

cd ~/.oh-my-zsh
git init # you've already done this step, so you can skip
git remote add origin https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh.git
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/master

After that, restart your terminal instance and you should be good to go.

edited Dec 14 '22 at 15:22

answered Nov 02 '15 at 21:19

Travis

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Thanks this worked! Just when i did the last step i had to remove the `--hard` first and after that do it again with `--hard` – Peter Nov 03 '15 at 17:21
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didn't work. I still get the error when i open a new terminal window – Kushagra Gour Aug 26 '16 at 21:06
For me I had to `merge` after the `fetch` and that seemed to work. – Dominic JL Apr 19 '22 at 09:42
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My issue was Xcode update. Even the error message was same, I had to launch Xcode and accept some terms. Better to check Xcode first if you had same error. – Ahmet Sep 14 '22 at 11:41
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@travis Can you please update the instructions and use `https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh` instead? – Jose Daniel Vivar Personat Dec 14 '22 at 14:17

score 18 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 22 '22 at 17:30

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I just encountered that message. In my case (on a Mac) it just so happens that I just installed Xcode, and that git stopped working until I accepted its terms and conditions. Just in case...

answered Mar 22 '22 at 17:30

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The same happened to me. When I ran `omz update`, I was instructed to run `sudo xcodebuild -license`, as I had recently installed Xcode. Running the command fixed the issue. – Jussi Virtanen Aug 19 '22 at 07:57
I already had xcode but I updated my macOS and it reset it - https://stackoverflow.com/a/53089103/4654175 – Shubham Sharma Nov 01 '22 at 02:38

score 16 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 05 '20 at 14:37

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The above solution didn't work for me. The problem in my case was that I have an alias

alias gpucb="git pull origin $(git branch --show-current)"

As soon as I commented it the error was gone. I need a fix for this. Also, the weird part is that the error is encountered only in the second git command.

answered Apr 05 '20 at 14:37

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Your problem is that the command `$(git branch --show-current)` is executed at the evaluation of the alias. To solve this, you can escape `$` using `\\` – Enzo Baldisserri May 16 '20 at 14:44
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Or use single quotes to wrap the alias, that seems to work too. – Enzo Baldisserri May 16 '20 at 14:51

score 8 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 26 '22 at 14:15

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For me, the root cause of the error was the upgrade to macOS Ventura. Doing xcode-select --install and restarting the terminal fixed the issue.

answered Oct 26 '22 at 14:15

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Sep 21 '22 at 09:21

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When I had this issue, I started by seeing what happened to my git

$git --version

Then it prompts to accept the new agreement on XCODE. So I ran

$sudo xcodebuild -license

After that, it will install the updates, then open XCODE.

Then all will be fine.

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answered Sep 13 '22 at 16:56

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in my case, this was the solution. thanks – davthecoder Oct 08 '22 at 08:52

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 30 '22 at 06:23

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In my case macOS Ventura 13.x. Download and installed Command Line Tools for Xcode 14.1 it's solved my issue

answered Nov 30 '22 at 06:23

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 15 '22 at 11:07

By trying the accepted solution, I got this error:

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

However, running this (and restarting the terminal) helped me:

$ xcode-select --install

Upgrading Oh My Zsh gives me 'not a git repository' error

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