merging confusion and question

I'm confused.

What is the intended work flow here?  Ie, aside from trashing my 
repository and starting over, what does one do to recover?

rich@cobra> git clone /home/rich/repos/webos webos
Cloning into 'webos'...
done.
rich@cobra> cd webos
rich@cobra> git remote add central git@github.com:openwebos/webos.git
rich@cobra> git co master
Already on 'master'
rich@cobra> git pull central master
X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
remote: Counting objects: 22, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (19/19), done.
remote: Total 21 (delta 12), reused 11 (delta 2)
Unpacking objects: 100% (21/21), done.
 From github.com:openwebos/webos
  * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
warning: Failed to merge submodule meta-webos (not checked out)
Auto-merging meta-webos
CONFLICT (submodule): Merge conflict in meta-webos
Auto-merging README.md
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
rich@cobra> git commit -a
error: unable to index file meta-webos
fatal: updating files failed
rich@cobra> git add meta-webos
error: unable to index file meta-webos
fatal: updating files failed
rich@cobra> git rm meta-webos
meta-webos: needs merge
rm 'meta-webos'
fatal: git rm: 'meta-webos': Is a directory
rich@cobra> git merge meta-webos
error: 'merge' is not possible because you have unmerged files.
hint: Fix them up in the work tree,
hint: and then use 'git add/rm <file>' as
hint: appropriate to mark resolution and make a commit,
hint: or use 'git commit -a'.
fatal: Exiting because of an unresolved conflict.

--rich