You mean when I completely uninstalled a package and then add it again?
It wouldn’t be needed if I just switch to a different version of an installed package, right? From: stefan.karpin...@gmail.com [mailto:stefan.karpin...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Karpinski Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 10:45 AM To: Julia Users <julia-users@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [julia-users] Re: Git-maggedon The cache folders are just bare git repositories for packages. Keeping these around prevents having to hit the network to reinstall a package version that you've already fetched and installed before. On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 1:31 PM, David Anthoff <anth...@berkeley.edu <mailto:anth...@berkeley.edu> > wrote: I’ve never understood the various .cache folders that hang around, but if you want to be sure to start from a clean .julia package folder you might want to make sure all the .cache folders are also removed. In particular I guess the .julia/.cache folder. And then retry the whole Pkg.init() procedure. From: <mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com> julia-users@googlegroups.com [mailto: <mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com> julia-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eric Forgy Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 10:24 AM To: julia-users < <mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com> julia-users@googlegroups.com> Subject: [julia-users] Re: Git-maggedon Update: I went back and changed v0.4 -> v0.4_temp2 and did a Pkg.Init() and Pkg.add("JSON") using v0.4.5 just to see if it was related to upgrading. I see the exact same problem. I suspect my Git is corrupted somehow which is wreaking havoc with Pkg. That is just a guess. Any ideas? On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 12:37:50 AM UTC+8, Eric Forgy wrote: I just upgraded to v0.4.6 on Windows, but I think this problem might predate the upgrade (I think the upgrade was partially in hopes of resolving this). I don't know if this is a Julia issue or a Git issue, but if I add any package, e.g. julia> Pkg.add("JSON") The package gets added to my package directory, but no branch is checked out so I am on HEAD. Worse, instead of my remotes being things like: remotes/origin/master I see things like remotes/cached/heads/master Any idea what's going on? I'm on a critical business trip and my development is completely paralyzed until I can resolve this so I really sincerely appreciate any help. In an act of desperation, I moved v0.4 -> v0.4_temp, Pkg.init() and reinstalled every single package. I still have exactly the same problem, so I am unable to do anything with Julia until I fix this. Thank you very much and best regards, Eric
