Subject: Re: rebase: strange failures to apply patc 3-way

From: Andrew Wong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:32:23 -0500

On 03/09/13 06:26, Max Horn wrote:
> It tends to fail in separate places, but eventually "stabilizes". E.g. I just did a couple test rebases, and it failed twice in commit 14, then the third time in commit 15 (which underlines once more that the failures are inappropriate).
>
> The fourth time, something new and weird happened:
>
> $ git rebase --abort
> $ git rebase NEW-PARENT 
> Cannot rebase: You have unstaged changes.
> Please commit or stash them.
> $
>
> This is quite suspicious. It appears that git for some reason things a file is dirty when it isn't. That could explain the other rebase failures too, couldn't it? But what might cause such a thing?
Yea, that's really suspicious. This could mean there's an issue with
when git is checking the index. Try running these a couple times in a
clean work tree:
    $ git update-index --refresh
    $ git diff-files

In a clean work tree, these commands should print nothing. But in your
case, these might print random files that git thinks have been modified...

If the commands do print out some files, check the timestamp from the
git index and the filesystem:
    $ git ls-files --debug file1 file2
    $ stat -f "%N %m %c" file1 file2

Is this repo on a network drive? Or is it local drive in your Mac?