> Have you checked your hard drive recently?  Any disk
> issues could cause a mess in GIT, and I would argue could be likely to show up in
> GIT before anything else simply because the entire GIT tree uses many
> tens of thousands of small files.

Nothing wrong with the drive. Just yesterday when booting the scheduled fsck ran on that partition.

I was able to sync the tree after moving the contents of the kmplayer directory. Sort of --- nothing filled in to replace the missing files. I still get the "You are not currently on a branch..." messages with many modules.

I don't want to waste 4+ GB of bandwidth recreating a whole new local tree, but I don't know what else to do. Not to mention that with a new tree none of the modules will have my user name in the config files.

Darrell