Re: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ?

From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Jul 15, 2011, 19:34 UTC
Message-ID: <1310758497.7308.20.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <CAAnh3_-ayozWnHR-ViJ3zjXQvPQA1kd9spGV_TEU=-kFzBytvw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:02 -0700, Yang wrote:

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> I created a patch by "git format-patch", and this patch includes some
> newly-added files.
> 
> when I got back to the original branch, and apply this patch, the new
> files appear, but they are not
> added to git repository, so I have to manually find all the new files
> and do "git add" for each of them.
> 
> 
> I guess there should have been a way to automatically do "git add" for
> all the new files in the patch,
> how could I do that?

git-apply is just a wrapper around the patch(1) utility. As you have created a patch for use in an email (as that's the point of using format-patch, so you have both the commit message and diff in one place), you should use git-am, which takes care of all the "magic". If you want to change what the patch does, you just need to use git commit --amend

Cheers,
   cmn

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