Cocoapods: Failed to connect to GitHub to update the CocoaPods/Specs specs repo

Question

When running pod repo update the following error is generated:

Updating spec repo `master`
[!] Failed to connect to GitHub to update the CocoaPo         


        

Answer 1

This worked like magic

$sudo rm -fr ~/.cocoapods/repos/master
$pod setup
$pod install

Otherwise

$pod setup
Ctrl +C
cd ~/.cocoapods/repos 
$git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git master