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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 15, 2011, 19:39 UTC
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Yang <teddyyyy123@gmail.com> writes:
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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.
You are doing and thinking wrong.

$ git apply patch $ git commit

would not add any new contents to existing paths either.

$ git apply --index patch $ git commit

would be the way, but that is why we have "git am".
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