>> 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

Have you tried "./scripts/switch_submodules_to_head_and_clean"?

Tim