Terminal polluted with git related output

[mmjmanders]

• Confirmed this is a problem with running a brew command and not brew installing or the post-install behaviour of one or more formulae? If it's a formulae-specific problem please file this issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new
• Ran brew update and retried your prior step?
• Ran brew doctor, fixed all issues and retried your prior step?
• Ran brew config and brew doctor and included their output with your issue?

$ brew config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 1.2.4
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: b5529084906af89827f6d9befd613457a1615918
Last commit: 10 days ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: 0c01916d2beeeeb83495f9d20f7227a3abb21d06
Core tap last commit: 4 hours ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /usr/local/Homebrew
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN: https://homebrew.bintray.com
CPU: octa-core 64-bit haswell
Homebrew Ruby: 2.0.0-p648
Clang: 8.1 build 802
Git: 2.13.2 => /usr/local/bin/git
Perl: /usr/local/bin/perl => /usr/local/Cellar/perl/5.26.0/bin/perl
Python: /usr/local/bin/python => /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.13/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7
Ruby: /Users/phnl310034430/.rbenv/shims/ruby => /Users/phnl310034430/.rbenv/versions/2.4.1/bin/ruby
Java: 1.8.0_131, 1.8.0_121
macOS: 10.12.4-x86_64
Xcode: N/A
CLT: 8.3.2.0.1.1492020469
X11: 2.7.11 => /opt/X11

$ brew doctor
Your system is ready to brew.

When I run the following command: brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup, before actually updating/upgrading stuff, my terminal is polluted with stuff like this:

/usr/local/Homebrew/.git/FETCH_HEAD Stats {
  dev: 16777220,
  mode: 33188,
  nlink: 1,
  uid: 501,
  gid: 80,
  rdev: 0,
  blksize: 4096,
  ino: 714081,
  size: 4921,
  blocks: 16,
  atime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  mtime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  ctime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  birthtime: 2017-01-11T12:51:10.000Z }
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-fonts/.git/FETCH_HEAD Stats {
  dev: 16777220,
  mode: 33188,
  nlink: 1,
  uid: 501,
  gid: 80,
  rdev: 0,
  blksize: 4096,
  ino: 5453654,
  size: 104,
  blocks: 8,
  atime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  mtime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  ctime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  birthtime: 2017-04-25T12:31:18.000Z }
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/.git/FETCH_HEAD Stats {
  dev: 16777220,
  mode: 33188,
  nlink: 1,
  uid: 501,
  gid: 80,
  rdev: 0,
  blksize: 4096,
  ino: 1298987,
  size: 13077,
  blocks: 32,
  atime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  mtime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  ctime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  birthtime: 2017-01-11T16:01:51.000Z }
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/.git/FETCH_HEAD Stats {
  dev: 16777220,
  mode: 33188,
  nlink: 1,
  uid: 501,
  gid: 80,
  rdev: 0,
  blksize: 4096,
  ino: 819800,
  size: 103,
  blocks: 8,
  atime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  mtime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  ctime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  birthtime: 2017-01-11T14:37:30.000Z }
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services/.git/FETCH_HEAD Stats {
  dev: 16777220,
  mode: 33188,
  nlink: 1,
  uid: 501,
  gid: 80,
  rdev: 0,
  blksize: 4096,
  ino: 5292010,
  size: 107,
  blocks: 8,
  atime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  mtime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  ctime: 2017-07-12T14:48:13.000Z,
  birthtime: 2017-04-24T09:57:54.000Z }
Already up-to-date.

The commands get executed perfectly fine but I think this logging is not needed.

The output of brew --version is

$ brew --version
Homebrew 1.2.4
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 0c01; last commit 2017-07-12)

[ilovezfs]

Try moving ~/.gitconfig somewhere else and see if it still happens.

[mmjmanders]

@ilovezfs I temporarily renamed the file and restarted my terminal session but this still happens. I'm now seeing that @thiagodebastos has the same issue in #2811

[ilovezfs]

@mmjmanders the next thing to try is moving your .bash_profile out of the way (assuming you're using bash).

[mmjmanders]

I am using zsh with (of course) oh-my-zsh. After removing the ~/.zshrc file the messages disappeared. Now to figure out which plugin is causing this...

[jacobwgillespie]

It's a side-effect of having the touch npm module installed globally - if you have something like nvm set up in your ~/.zshrc, then the binary in the touch module is overriding the standard /usr/bin/touch (bad idea to name the binary touch, npm module authors). I still haven't tracked down exactly which package depended on it and thus put it in the path, but after uninstalling several different global modules, it cleared up the issue.

The culprit was the `typings` npm module - installing it globally installs `touch` globally as well.

[jacobwgillespie]

So the issue for me ended up being typings, which depends on touch@^1.0.0. Version 2.0 and later of touch have renamed the binary to nodetouch, so upgrading should fix the issue. I have opened an issue for typings that should resolve that specific case: typings/core#195.

[willaustin]

@jacobwgillespie I am using nvm and noticed through which touch and ll $(which touch) that yarn had created a symlink which was overriding my standard touch. I uninstalled yarn, but the symlinks remained. After removing those, though, everything was back to normal. Thanks for the tip.