Follow up ... hickup!???
The first git pull rendered this:
Updating b87a580aa3..6a643e96d6
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
Then listed a bunch of files ending below:
availability/condition/completion/lang/en/availability_completion.php
availability/condition/completion/yui/build/moodle-availability_completion-form/moodle-availability_completion-form-debug.js
availability/condition/completion/yui/build/moodle-availability_completion-form/moodle-availabilit
Aborting
Just a test directory ... no changes were made to any file ... just added a bash shell script for creating the text log file and that wasn't made executable ... source 'scriptname'.
Issuing a 'git reset --hard'
put it back on 'track' ... yes, pun intended! ;)
and then another git pull everything OK then
'spirit of sharing', Ken