Re: git rebase failing when using ZFS partition on Mac OS X

> I've found out why git rebase wasn't working for me. It appears to be  
> something to do with the fact that the filesystem is running on ZFS  
> (and frankly, could well be a ZFS bug). I'd be loathe to move away  
> from ZFS generally but it would be good to find out why it's  
> complaining.
> 
> apple:egit alex$ git status
> # On branch master
> # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 3 commits.
> #
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
> apple:egit alex$ git rebase -i HEAD~1
> Working tree is dirty
> 
> Here's what running a stat on TODO (an arbitrary file at the head of  
> the project) gives on a ZFS mounted file:
> 
> apple:egit alex$ stat -r TODO
> 754974724 135333 0100644 1 1000 100 0 2179 1241639236 1241034917  
> 1241639236 1241034917 2560 5 0 TODO
> apple:egit alex$ stat TODO
> 754974724 135333 -rw-r--r-- 1 alex bandlem 0 2179 "May  6 20:47:16  
> 2009" "Apr 29 20:55:17 2009" "May  6 20:47:16 2009" "Apr 29 20:55:17  
> 2009" 2560 5 0 TODO
> 
> Here's what running a stat on the same file on an HFS partition gives:
> 
> apple:egit alex$ stat -r TODO
> 234881026 930759 0100644 1 1000 0 0 2179 1241643695 1241034917  
> 1241643690 1241034917 4096 8 0 TODO
> apple:egit alex$ stat TODO
> 234881026 930759 -rw-r--r-- 1 alex wheel 0 2179 "May  6 22:01:35 2009"  
> "Apr 29 20:55:17 2009" "May  6 22:01:30 2009" "Apr 29 20:55:17 2009"  
> 4096 8 0 TODO
> 
> These are repeatable; if I re-run this periodically, it doesn't seem  
> to change. However, I wonder if there's any dependency on an 'inode'  
> or similar, which doesn't really have a comparable concept in ZFS.
> 
> Is there any more information that I can provide to assist with  
> finding out what's going on?