error: you need to resolve your current index first plugins/macos/spotify: needs merge

Question

I am trying to uninstall a zsh plugin (macos), I have modified the .zshrc file and removed macos from the plugin list, and deleted the macos file in path ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins, but now when ever I initialize zsh, the following error always come out. How do I fix this?

error: you need to resolve your current index first plugins/macos/spotify: needs merge

Ona

I've also tried brew cleanup and brew doctor, those didn't work. Furthermore, I can't upgrade_oh_my_zsh due to the error above. – Ona

Answer 1

Just reset it:

cd ~/.oh-my-zsh; git reset --hard

Sartorial

what are the consequences of git reset --hard? – Ona

It worked in my case, although I am not sure what I have to reconfigure afterwards – Ona

Be careful of this one - I'd rather not nuke all my custom changes back to factory defaults. See gitkraken.com/learn/git/… – Sale