On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 8:34 AM, Alan Snyder <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. > >