On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:07:25PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > I'm using GIT on Debian unstable (1.6.6.1). When applying patches I created > with git format-patch and applying them afterwards with git am, this fails > with every patch that adds a new file. > Is there any option I forgot to give to git am? Or is this a bug. No, it should just work. However, I can't replicate your problem using the following script: mkdir repo && cd repo && git init && echo 1 >file-1 && git add . && git commit -m one && echo 2 >file-2 && git add . && git commit -m two && git format-patch -1 --stdout >patch && git reset --hard HEAD^ && echo Confirm that file-2 is gone... && ! grep . file-2 && git am patch && echo Confirm that file-2 is back... && grep . file-2 So perhaps there is something else going on. Can you provide us with samples of the patches that fail to apply? What does "git am" say when it tries to apply? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html