It seems that this somehow got lost in the commit/rebase shuffle and
wasn't caught by the tests that _did_ make it because they were all using
just one file.
As a result of this bug, locals would fail to work correctly in any
configuration with more than one .tf file.
Along with restoring the append/merge behavior, this also reworks some of
the tests to exercise the multi-file case as better insurance against
regressions of this sort in future.
This fixes#15969.
Ensure that fields set in an earlier Terraform config block aren't
removed by Append when encountering another Terraform block. When
multiple blocks contain the same field, the later one still wins.
Martin Atkins