I’ve been getting this same error message for a couple weeks now. I tried running brew doctor and a couple of simple commands that it displayed but haven’t had any luck. Any ideas what I should do about it or if it even matters?
That error means your Homebrew, specifically, the .git/objects directory contains empty or broken files, so brew update (and Topgrade) can’t fetch new commits.
Try this:
$ rm -rf $(brew --repo homebrew/core)/.git
$ brew update --force --quiet
If it still fails, reset all Homebrew repos:
$ brew update-reset
I have exactly the same error when updating Homebrew/Brew.
I tried the suggestions of curiouscat and thanks for them. Brew seems to reset itself, but nothing changes. Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance.
I am not sure, but I am new to Linux, and Bazzite specificaly, so I update manually every now and then to learn what changes. The first 5 times I didn’t get that error message.
I wonder how it gets that way? Seems weird it would get corrupted or empty.