MacOS random issues

Git fails after an OS upgrade

Symptom

After the MacOS upgrade git starts to fails with the following message:

Can't locate Git.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Git module) (@INC contains: /private/tmp/git-20201229-80125-1lqeweu/git-2.30.0/.brew_home/share/perl5 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Perl/5.28/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Library/Perl/5.28/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/share/git-core/perl /Library/Perl/5.28/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.28 /Network/Library/Perl/5.28/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.28 /Library/Perl/Updates/5.28.2 /System/Library/Perl/5.28/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.28 /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.28/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.28) at /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.30.0/libexec/git-core/git-credential-netrc line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.30.0/libexec/git-core/git-credential-netrc line 10.

Solution

reinstall xcode. This can be one through the System update application. Or in command line:

 xcode-select --install

VCS fails to recognize git repos

Symptom

No repositories recognized by VCS.

Solution

Check the path to the binary in settings.json in VCS and correct it as needed.