>> The latest fatal is tde-i18n, the biggest pig module of them 
>all.

After waiting for several hours for tde-i18n to update, the 
directory still won't sync when I run the 
switch_all_submodules_to_head_and_clean script.

Now tdeadmin is missing the .git directory.

I have no idea what is happening here but one-by-one the module 
.git directories are disappearing.

Is there a way to download just the .git directory? Or pull the 
.git directory from the top level of the sources?

Darrell