Rex,
I looked back through the command history and found that while I did issue the "git reset" before the "cd" that I also issued it again after the "cd." The first one would only have reported an error. But, just to be sure, I deleted the local clone and did it all again (git, cd, git reset, make...) It worked this time.
So I'm not sure what happened before, but I no longer have the issue. Thanks for your help.
Lance