On Thu, 24 May 2007, Marc Singer wrote: > > 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. The normal thing to do is git apply --index <patchfile> which will apply a patch _and_ update the index, so that you can then just do a simple git commit -m "my message goes here" --author "the author goes here" to create the commit, new (or deleted) files and all. Of course, the reason the "normal" patch format is an email, and not just a bare patch, is that an email contains so much more: it contains not just the patch, but the authorship information and the commit message. So basically: - no, you _cannot_ just "commit" a patch, since a patch on its own doesn't contain the required information to be a real commit. - but yes, you can obviously _apply_ a patch, and then commit it once you add the proper information, but that does require more information than just the patch itself includes. So hopefully that clarified things. Linus - 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
