From: Yang Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:00:07 GMT Subject: Re: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ? Message-ID: 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 wrote: > Yang 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". >