I am not sure if this could potentially be resolved by updating my git ignore file. I have to do this solution each time as well which does end up working.
This occurs each time a commit is made from either myself or another collaborator. CocoaPods’s specs repository is too out-of-date to satisfy dependencies.This solutions works each time however each commit removes it for some reason, having me redownload it from firebase and adding the ist in XCode each time.