From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:39:30 GMT
Subject: Re: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ?
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Yang <teddyyyy123@gmail.com> writes:

> 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".