Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· sheerun

Commit your changes after editing Homebrew formulas

As in the title. If you don't do that, you'll get:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge: Library/Formula/redis.rb
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
Aborting

Here is one-liner:

git --work-tree=$(brew --prefix) commit -a -m "potato"