# "git apply" can't add new files to repo ? 6 messages from 2011-07-15 to 2011-07-15. Participants: Yang, Carlos Martín Nieto, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27824 ## Yang, 2011-07-15 19:02 Subject: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAAnh3_-ayozWnHR-ViJ3zjXQvPQA1kd9spGV_TEU%3D-kFzBytvw%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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. I guess there should have been a way to automatically do "git add" for all the new files in the patch, how could I do that? thanks a lot Yang ``` ## Carlos Martín Nieto, 2011-07-15 19:34 Subject: Re: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ? Message-ID: <1310758497.7308.20.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1310758497.7308.20.camel%40centaur.lab.cmartin.tk In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:02 -0700, Yang wrote: > 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. > > > I guess there should have been a way to automatically do "git add" for > all the new files in the patch, > how could I do that? git-apply is just a wrapper around the patch(1) utility. As you have created a patch for use in an email (as that's the point of using format-patch, so you have both the commit message and diff in one place), you should use git-am, which takes care of all the "magic". If you want to change what the patch does, you just need to use git commit --amend Cheers, cmn -- Carlos Martín Nieto http://www.cmartin.tk "¿Cómo voy a decir bobadas si soy mudo?" -- CACHAI ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2011-07-15 19:39 Subject: Re: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ? Message-ID: <7vd3hb1ggd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vd3hb1ggd.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` 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". ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2011-07-15 20:13 Subject: Re: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ? Message-ID: <7v4o2n1evs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v4o2n1evs.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <1310758497.7308.20.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> ``` Carlos Martín Nieto writes: > git-apply is just a wrapper around the patch(1) utility. Huh? ``` ## Carlos Martín Nieto, 2011-07-15 20:21 Subject: Re: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ? Message-ID: <1310761272.7308.26.camel@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1310761272.7308.26.camel%40centaur.lab.cmartin.tk In-Reply-To: <7v4o2n1evs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 13:13 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Carlos Martín Nieto writes: > > > git-apply is just a wrapper around the patch(1) utility. > > Huh? That was a thinko; I've always considered git-apply to be little more than patch(1), but it does look like it does much more. I should have re-looked at the man page earlier. Sorry for the noise, cmn ``` ## Yang, 2011-07-15 23:00 Subject: Re: "git apply" can't add new files to repo ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAAnh3__UeYTjk4U%3Ds2PZkUoV7SvE440zq-qmwoLxoodisTrZ%3DA%40mail.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 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". > ```