Thanks for the information. That indeed was the problem. Carbon Copy Cloner squirrels some files away to allow undo, a feature that I don’t usually pay attention to. Removing the extra CCC directory did the trick.
Alan > On Jun 26, 2023, at 6:24 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 8:34 AM, Alan Snyder <javali...@cbfiddle.com > <mailto:javali...@cbfiddle.com>> wrote: >> Can we start over? >> >> I am trying to do a JDK build using make. >> >> It reports an error like this: Inconsistent revision control: 17-24-55/ is >> missing .git directory >> >> at which point the build is aborted. >> >> I’d like to know what this message means, so that I can fix the problem or >> avoid it in the future. >> >> What is 17-24-55? > > > It is a directory. Please check which files are within. Try removing it ( > move it outside the entire source tree) and stay the build. > > >> >> >> If there is a missing .git directory, where would it be? >> >> The top level .git directory is present. >> >> If I do “git status” it tells me things that I expect, listing untracked >> files and changes not staged for commit. >> >> It does not complain about the repo being broken in any way. >>
