Today, I tried this in my git.git checkout: $ mv transport-helper.c wt-status.c $ git diff -B -M | git apply --cached error: wt-status.c: already exists in index That is, I overwrote the tracked wt-status.c with a completly different file that is also tracked. Then I try to stage the change using git apply. git diff -B -M reports this: diff --git a/transport-helper.c b/wt-status.c similarity index 100% rename from transport-helper.c rename to wt-status.c Notice that there is no mention that the previously existing wt-status.c was removed. I wonder whether this is a bug. Or is it the safety valve in git apply that does not allow to overwrite an existing file which should not trigger in this case? -- Hannes -- 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