RE: Dropbox and "Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge"

>I've started to run into issues with git relatively recently. Let's take the issue I'm
>experiencing at the moment. I'm trying to rewrite a history (git rebase -i some-
>hash, move 4 commits up, rename the last 2 of them), and it fails to apply the next
>commit on the todo list after these 4 (I've redacted the message):
>
>[detached HEAD 1888888] name-3
> Date: Mon May 9 22:41:03 2022 +0300
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>[detached HEAD 00b5555] name-4
> Date: Sat Jul 23 13:19:42 2022 +0300
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
>        some paths
>Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
>Aborting
>hint: Could not execute the todo command
>hint:
>hint:     pick 8222222222222222222222222222222222222222 name-5
>hint:
>hint: It has been rescheduled; To edit the command before continuing, please
>hint: edit the todo list first:
>hint:
>hint:     git rebase --edit-todo
>hint:     git rebase --continue
>Could not apply 8222222... name-5
>
>The files it complains about, they're versioned, and they're not changed when it
>stops. If I copy the repository (cp -r), and repeat the steps, it sometimes succeeds,
>sometimes not. If I were to split it into smaller steps I believe it would succeed. In
>other words I got this message occasionally for no apparent reason. Usually it
>succeeds if I simply repeat the steps. Sometimes I need to do it in smaller steps.
>
>First I thought it's an issue with vim-fugitive, but I can reproduce it with git alone.
>The other culprits I can think of are magit (I believe I used it with this repository),
>vim, and now that I think about it... Dropbox? The repository is in a dropbox
>directory. I understand that this is uncommon, but a couple of my repositories are
>in a dropbox directory and I'd like to put the reasons aside. Can you suggest what I
>can do to find the reason it fails? Do you know what exactly triggers this message
>(the content changed, modification time, ctime)?
>
>I'm running Alpine Linux and git-2.36.1.