Running the `modep` Command Disconnects the AP?

(Did eventually notice the note saying that this is for a plain Raspbian, not a previously-installed MODEP. Still, it’s a strange issue to get.)

This is kind of weird. But, again, reproducible.
Plain vanilla install from the modep.zip image. Expanded the filesystem but that’s it.
Ran modep on the CLI:

install_all started


install_pisound started

Updating pisound repository with latest stuff in https://github.com/BlokasLabs/pisound...
remote: Counting objects: 138, done.
remote: Total 138 (delta 36), reused 36 (delta 36), pack-reused 102
Receiving objects: 100% (138/138), 33.55 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (68/68), completed with 14 local objects.
From https://github.com/BlokasLabs/pisound
   5f20c46..c1fb0be  master     -> origin/master
 * [new tag]         pisound-btn-1.00 -> pisound-btn-1.00
 * [new tag]         pisound-btn-1.01 -> pisound-btn-1.01
 * [new tag]         pisound-btn-1.05 -> pisound-btn-1.05
 * [new tag]         pisound-btn-1.02 -> pisound-btn-1.02
 * [new tag]         pisound-btn-1.03 -> pisound-btn-1.03
 * [new tag]         pisound-btn-1.04 -> pisound-btn-1.04
Updating 5f20c46..c1fb0be
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
	.gitignore
	Makefile
	pisound-btn/Makefile
	pisound-btn/dnsmasq.conf
	pisound-btn/hostapd.conf
	pisound-btn/pisound-btn.c
	pisound-btn/pisound-btn.service
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
Aborting

make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
Backing up scripts in /usr/local/etc/pisound to /usr/local/etc/pisound-backups/2017-10-29.18:34:31

And, at this point, the pisound WiFi drops.
Same thing happens while selecting the first option in the manual install (Install Pisound HAT drivers). This didn’t happen with my slightly tweaked install.
Not really sure about the git stuff like stashing and merging (only been using git through Github).

Interestingly, the same error happens with phantomjs, but the WiFi doesn’t drop.

install_phantomjs started

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libfontconfig1 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Updating repository with latest stuff...
Updating 15996ef..ff89c87
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
	rpi-1-2-3/wheezy-jessie/v2.1.1/README.md
	rpi-2-3/wheezy-jessie/v2.1.1/README.md
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
Aborting

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