Re: Files modified, even after: git reset --hard

On 26/07/2021 02:34, Martin wrote:

I figured that is the reason why they show modified.

Not a problem. Until I am in the middle of a rebase, and i cannot run
(after a conflict)
  git rebase --continue

The modified files are not part of the original series of commits.
they are just random files from somewhere else in the tree.
I can not reset/restore them.
So I must now "git add" files entirely unrelated to continue rebasing.
Well or apparently change my config for the duration of the rebase.

Is this 'mid-rebase' the core case for the 'Files modified' problem? -
does it happen at other times (excepting maybe cherry-pick)

i.e. you are rebasing a series of commits where some files had 'old'
line endings in the repository, but your current line ending setting
wants the line endings in those un-related, un-changed files to change
their line endings, and the rebase command can't cope with these
incidental differences?

Philip