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Document running `xcode-select`

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Description

Apropos https://github.com/skiptools/skipstone/issues/205

On a fresh machine (e.g. UTM), the initial skip checkup will fail, because installing Homebrew will xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools.

[✗] Xcode version: error executing xcodebuild (install from: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/)

In verbose mode:

executing command: /usr/bin/xcodebuild -version
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
[✗] Xcode version: error executing xcodebuild (install from: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/)

(It doesn't matter whether you install Homebrew before or after Xcode. Once Homebrew selects the CLT directory, nothing automatically attempts to reset it to Xcode.)

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Research direction

Start with the existing documentation around skip checkup and the quoted xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools failure. Document how to recover when xcodebuild requires Xcode, and consider the work done when a fresh-machine reader can follow the guidance from this error.

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Assessment

Tech stack
macos
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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