Brew install fails while updating

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In one of my build steps in a iOS container I have brew install watchman. It has been working properly for a while, but since yesterday I’ve been getting the following error:

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:in `require_relative': /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:110: syntax error, unexpected keyword_rescue, expecting keyword_end (SyntaxError)
	from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:in `<main>'
Exited with code 1

I was able to fix it once by ssh’ing into the machine and run brew update-reset before that command of brew install watchman was executed. But this is not really a fix, because if I run again it will throw the same error.

Any tips on how to address this?

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Has the latest version of Watchman changed recently? If so, can you pin to the specific version that worked for you before?

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Hi @halfer, thanks for the quick response.
I just changed to brew install watchman@4.9.0 but still had the same issue.

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Just confirmed that the problem is with brew update. I just changed the command to: HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install watchman and the build was successful.

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