Marco,
Thanks for all of the help! I don't really have any direct suggestions for why there would be a problem with the git clone. There is a limitation that I ran into with testing which was the index.htrw files work almost like an index.html file would except it did not seem to follow the links completely. For example the 'index.htrw' file under tutorial references the directories that hold all of the tutorials:
<a href="" Script-Fu</a> Write Scheme for GIMP.
<a href="" Script-Fu 2</a> Write More Scheme for GIMP.
<a href="" Jpg to Xcf</a> Import Xcf Images a Directory at a Time.
All of these links simply showed a directory of files in the index.htrw, I just followed the same pattern as the existing tutorials. I concluded that there is a downstream process that defines the styles, fonts, colors, and how to follow the links. My conclusion could be wrong, but I did not see how to display any of the gimp web with the same 'look' as I see on the gimp web site.
Just to be sure I was clear with my intent, there should have been the following in the share export_to_gimp_web
[stephen localhost export_to_gimp_web]$ ls -R
.:
AutomatedJpgToXcf index.htrw
./AutomatedJpgToXcf:
example-jpeg-to-xcf.py gimp_jpg_to_xcf_popup.jpg gimp_menu_compare.jpg index.htrw script-fu-example-jpg-to-xcf.scm
The directory AutomatedJpgToXcf and file index.htrw should go into gimp-web/tutorials. The index.htrw would replace the older index.htrw and has a link to the new tutorial in AutomatedJpgToXcf. There are index.htrw files in several places, just wanted to be clear about which I was trying to modify.