It's really simple, it goes like this, if your using a carrot on a stick to control a pig that your ridding and you right click to let the pig eat it and get a boost, it will then lose durability like always... But if you press F to swap hands, the carrot on a stick will gain back the 7 points of durability it lost by using the boost.
These will all bring back the durability:
Pressing F to swap hands
Picking it up in the inventory GUI
Dropping it, then picking it up
First started happening in 1.9 snapshot 16w35e, which was just after MC-87567 (crash when using carrot on stick) was fixed.
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Affects 16w43a.
Never managed to break Carrot on a Stick without "repairing" it. Swapping hands isn't the only method to restore the durability, clicking it through the inventory and dropping it then picking it up again does the same thing. The durability increases only by 7 points once, and after a specific line of actions the Carrot on a Stick won't be able to be repaired in the same way. It's complicated.
Confirmed. It doesn't seem to happen if it's the first time I've ever used a Carrot on a Stick on a particular pig, but happens all other times.