Yang <teddyyyy123@xxxxxxxxx> 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". -- 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