It looks like it reduces to something very simple. Git patches, as generated by git-format-patch, have a header with an email address. Cogito patches, as generated by cg-mkpatch, have no email address in the header. git-am doesn't like the cogito patches. Is there a way to import patches that did not come from git? Remember that we'd like to include the functionality of git-am that adds new files to the index. Cheers. - 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