From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:33:14 GMT Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > A few notes on these things: > > git-apply --index /tmp/my.patch > > will not only apply the patch (unified patches only!), but will do the > index updates for you while it's at it, so if the patch contains new files > (or it deletes files), you don't need to worry about it. Btw, if the patch contains rename/copy-patches or mode updates, you _need_ to use git-apply, since regular "patch" doesn't know about file modes and can't handle file renames or copies. Now, the rename/copy patches are easy to avoid by just not asking git to generate them (so they'll show up as just straight file creates, with a delete of the old file for a rename), but the file mode part in particular is useful as more than just a way to create smaller (and more human-readable) patches. Linus