Changes to terminalrc can break global terminal configuration

I keep all my dot files in a git repository. It works off a cherry-pick/rebase structure, where files in the repository are symlinked to their appropriate locations. As such, I have my terminalrc symlinked to $HOME/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc.

For some reason, whenever I cherry-pick any commit that contains changes to the terminalrc file for xfce4-terminal, the configuration for the terminal no longer references the terminalrc file; it simply uses whatever the default values are for the terminal and ignores the terminalrc. Closing all open terminals will not make the terminalrc file be read. The only way to "reset" it such that it will read from the terminalrc again is by either changing any setting in the terminalrc or restarting the entire computer (though I haven't had to do the latter the last few times this issue has come up).

This is running version 0.8.9.2 on Manjaro i3 edition