Error: writing tilt api configs...yaml: control characters are not allowed

[landism]

A user reported this error on tilt up:

Error: writing tilt api configs: error loading config file "/Users/username/.tilt-dev/config": yaml: control characters are not allowed.

The error was fixed by removing /Users/username/.tilt-dev/config so that Tilt could regenerate it.

We do not know what caused the config file to become invalid and do not have a repro for this. It's probably not worth looking into unless there are more reports. I'm filing this so that anyone who hits this error and searches for it can 1) let us know it affected them and 2) see the workaround.

[jaroslav-kubicek]

We had just the same incident as described.