No such keg usr local Cellar git

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I have been struggling with this for a few hours  I am on a Mac using Yosemite  I had homebrew installed  and was using git just fine  I tried doing  git add -i and I got this error      Can t locate Git pm in  INC   INC contains    So I followed the instructions here  Can  39 t locate Git pm in  INC   brew uninstall git worked fine  but after I tried to  brew install git I ve been stuck in a terrible cycle     brew install git  Error  git-git already installed To install this version  first  brew unlink git    brew unlink git Error  No such keg   usr local Cellar git   brew link git Error  No such keg   usr local Cellar git   git --version git version 1 9 3  Apple Git-50    brew upgrade git    gt  Upgrading 1 outdated package  with result  git 2 2 2 Error   usr local Library LinkedKegs git is not a valid keg   brew install git Error  git-git already installed To install this version  first  brew unlink git      I just want to get homebrew  amp  git back to normal and linked to the correct repo again  I m really rough around the edges at this stuff  so any help would be greatly appreciated

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Had a similar issue while installing  Lua  in OS X using homebrew  I guess it could be useful for other users facing similar issue in homebrew    On running the command         brew install lua   The command returned an error       Error   usr local opt lua is not a valid keg    in general the error can be of  usr local opt  is not a valid keg   FIXED it by deleting the file directory it is referring to  i e   deleting the   usr local opt lua  file       root-user   rm -rf  usr local opt lua   And then running the brew install command returned success

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Give another go at force removing the brewed version of git brew uninstall --force git  Then cleanup any older versions and clear the brew cache brew cleanup -s git  Remove any dead symlinks brew cleanup --prune-prefix  Then try reinstalling git brew install git  If that doesn t work  I d remove that installation of Homebrew altogether and reinstall it  If you haven t placed anything else in your brew --prefix directory   usr local by default   you can simply rm -rf   brew --prefix   Otherwise the Homebrew wiki recommends using a script at https   gist github com mxcl 1173223 file-uninstall homebrew-sh

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Os X Mojave 10 14 has       Error  The Command Line Tools header package must be installed on   Mojave    Solution  Go to       Library Developer CommandLineTools Packages macOS SDK headers for macOS 10 14 pkg   location and install the package manually  And brew will start working and we can run   brew uninstall --force git brew cleanup --force -s git brew prune brew install git

[macos] No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/git

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