Inconsistent revision control

[Sriram Narayanan]

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