Installation of Homebrew in mac is failing with error message ambiguous argument 'origin/master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

[ghost]

INGUR1M0282:~ hussamoa$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
==> Checking for sudo access (which may request your password)...
Password:
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/share/doc/homebrew
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/brew
/usr/local/Homebrew

Press RETURN/ENTER to continue or any other key to abort:
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown -R hussamoa:admin /usr/local/Homebrew
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git [...] -- [...]'
Failed during: git reset --hard origin/master
INGUR1M0282:~ hussamoa$

[SMillerDev]

Try the suggestions in #666

[ghost]

No it does not work. I doubt if my local git configuration is interfering with the installation.

[ghost]

I ran this rm ~/.gitconfig. Then re-installed Homebrew, it worked.

[lisagorewitdecker]

same here