"brian m. carlson" <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> writes: > When applying multiple patches with git am, or when rebasing using the > am backend, it's possible that one of our patches has updated a > gitattributes file. Currently, we cache this information, so if a > file in a subsequent patch has attributes applied, the file will be > written out with the attributes in place as of the time we started the > rebase or am operation, not with the attributes applied by the previous > patch. This problem does not occur when using the -m or -i flags to > rebase.
Back when "am" was a script that repeatedly calls "apply --index && commit-tree", caching the original contents of the attributes file and using it throughout the series would have been impossible to begin with, so this must be a regression when we rewrote it in C and moved to do everything in a single process without clearly the state between the steps, I guess. "rebase -m" and "rebase -i" are not repeated run_command() calls that invoke "git cherry-pick" or "git merge" these days, either, so I am somewhat curious how they avoid fallilng into the same trap. Thanks for the fix. Will queue.
