Error while generating ctags file

[gblock0]

Error while generating ctags file:
gutentags: File /Users/gregoryblock/.vim/cache/tags/Users-gregoryblock-radish-bu
ild-admin-tags doesn't appear to be a ctags file. Please delete it and run :Gute
ntagsUpdate!.

[ludovicchabant]

Hi!
What kind of ctags are you using, and what version? Gutentags checks, before overwriting a tags file, that it is indeed a tags file and not something else. It does this by looking at the first line of the tags file (see issue #37). Maybe your ctags generates the first line differentely?

[gblock0]

I am using Exuberant Ctags, which I installed with Homebrew.

This is what is in my ~/.ctags file:

--recurse=yes
--tag-relative=yes
--exclude=*.git*
--exclude=*.pyc
--exclude=*.pyo
--exclude=.DS_Store
--exclude=*.md
--exclude=*.mkd
--exclude=*.min.*
--exclude=node_modules
--exclude=bower_components
-f .git/tags

--langdef=js
--langmap=js:.js
--regex-js=/([A-Za-z0-9._$]+)[ \t]*[:=][ \t]*\{/\1/,object/
--regex-js=/([A-Za-z0-9._$()]+)[ \t]*[:=][ \t]*function[ \t]*\(/\1/,function/
--regex-js=/function[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9._$]+)[ \t]*([^)])/\1/,function/
--regex-js=/([A-Za-z0-9._$]+)[ \t]*[:=][ \t]*\[/\1/,array/
--regex-js=/([^= ]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*[^"]'[^']*/\1/,string/
--regex-js=/([^= ]+)[ \t]*=[ \t]*[^']"[^"]*/\1/,string/

Some of my ctags files have

!_TAG_FILE_FORMAT   2   /extended format; --format=1 will not append ;" to lines/
!_TAG_FILE_SORTED   1   /0=unsorted, 1=sorted, 2=foldcase/
!_TAG_PROGRAM_AUTHOR    Darren Hiebert  /dhiebert@users.sourceforge.net/
!_TAG_PROGRAM_NAME  Exuberant Ctags //
!_TAG_PROGRAM_URL   http://ctags.sourceforge.net    /official site/
!_TAG_PROGRAM_VERSION   5.8 //

and some do not. is this the issue?

One file I found had this text in the file, but had some ctag ! lines above it.

[gblock0]

I accidentally duplicated this. Sorry! Since more people have commented on the other one I will reference #47 here and close this issue.