An incremental clone is a sync, like an incremental backup.

Erik responded to a different question. I’ve gotten no closer to figuring out 
this problem.

Feel free to be helpful, if you can.

I don’t think it is helpful to nitpick my words.



> On Jun 26, 2023, at 2:46 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 27/06/2023 7:40 am, Alan Snyder wrote:
>> No, I meant incremental clone.
> 
> What is an incremental clone?
> 
>> After updating the directory, I tried to do an incremental build and got the 
>> strange message.
> 
> So you did mean "incremental build".
> 
>> After that, I tried doing a full build, reconfiguring, etc., but nothing 
>> helped.
>> Now that you know that a build tool is involved, can you help me figure out 
>> what the problem is?
> 
> I think Erik already addressed that.
> 
> David
> 
> 
>>> On Jun 26, 2023, at 2:32 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 26/06/2023 10:55 pm, Alan Snyder wrote:
>>>> It would be very unlikely for CCC to fail to correctly clone the directory.
>>>> It would be helpful to know what the build tool is complaining about with 
>>>> that message.
>>> 
>>> Wasn't apparent any build tool was involved. You stated:
>>> 
>>>> After an incremental clone of the directory tree, I get mysterious 
>>>> messages like this:
>>> 
>>> I presume you actually meant "incremental build".
>>> 
>>> David
>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 25, 2023, at 10:04 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 24/06/2023 12:28 pm, Alan Snyder wrote:
>>>>>> I have been trying to use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a copy of an active 
>>>>>> jdk repo on another macOS machine for the purpose of running tests.
>>>>>> The initial clone is fine.
>>>>>> After an incremental clone of the directory tree, I get mysterious 
>>>>>> messages like this:
>>>>>> Inconsistent revision control: 17-24-55/ is missing .git directory
>>>>>> What is this about?
>>>>>> Is there an easy way to fix this problem?
>>>>> 
>>>>> This isn't really a build issue. I can only suggest that you check that 
>>>>> the copy you made actually copied across all hidden directories, e.g. 
>>>>> .git, as well.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> David
>>>>> 
>>> 
> 

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