Inconsistent revision control

[Alan Snyder]

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?

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.