Inconsistent revision control

[Alan Snyder]

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 <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 8:34 AM, Alan Snyder <javalists at cbfiddle.com <mailto:javalists at cbfiddle.com>> wrote:
>> Can we start over?
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>> I am trying to do a JDK build using make.
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>> It reports an error like this: Inconsistent revision control: 17-24-55/ is missing .git directory
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>> at which point the build is aborted.
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>> I’d like to know what this message means, so that I can fix the problem or avoid it in the future.
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>> What is 17-24-55?
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> It is a directory. Please check which files are within. Try removing it ( move it outside the entire source tree) and stay the build.
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>> If there is a missing .git directory, where would it be?
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>> The top level .git directory is present.
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>> If I do “git status” it tells me things that I expect, listing untracked files and changes not staged for commit.
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>> It does not complain about the repo being broken in any way.
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