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

From: Yang <teddyyyy123@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 15, 2011, 23:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CAAnh3__UeYTjk4U=s2PZkUoV7SvE440zq-qmwoLxoodisTrZ=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3hb1ggd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

thanks all for your replies.

yang

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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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".
>