Hello Joe,
Summary of Warnings:
Could not update einsteininitialdata. Could not stash local changes. Error message was 'fatal: unable to create threaded lstat fatal: unable to create threaded lstat fatal: unable to create threaded lstat fatal: unable to create threaded lstat fatal: unable to create threaded lstat Cannot save the current worktree state '. Time Elapsed: 0 minutes, 27 seconds
This home directory is on a CentOS 6.10 server. I was able to do this successfully on an Ubuntu 16 VM.
Oha. That does not sound good. The threaded lstat thing is an almost internal git error message that could mean that there are issues with the file system hosting your $HOME directory. I have seen that message once before but the exact context escapes me now. It could have been in relation to a BeeGFS file system issue (you can see the file system in $HOME by doing "mount' command and looking for the line that corresponds to $HOME).
In any case, git lets you avoid the threaded lstat if you set (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33255285/i-get-fatal-unable-to-create-th...):
git config --global core.preloadIndex false
which actually makes my BeeGFS hunch less likely and points to a resource limit that the admins set.
Yours, Roland