No more "cwd doesn't exist" messages

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bin/brew b/bin/brew
index 29058a000..570ad265d 100755
--- a/bin/brew
+++ b/bin/brew
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ require 'pathname'
 $:.unshift Pathname.new(__FILE__).dirname.parent.realpath+'Library'+'Homebrew'
 require 'env'
 
+# often causes Ruby to throw exception ffs
+Dir.chdir '/' unless File.exist? Dir.getwd
+
 def prune
   n=0
   dirs=Array.new