On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:04:17AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The alternative workflow is to tell git to track the new files added > by the patch. So if you use "git apply --index", git will not just > apply the patch, it will also add the result to the index - so you > could commit it with a single "git commit", and you can see the diff - > including new files - with "git diff --cached". And then "git reset > --hard" will also undo the new files. When I test Greg's pre-releases, I tend to apply the whole mail thread using "git am". After that I just have to manually updated the Makefile and that's fine. When I try the merged -rc patch insted, I also use "git apply --index" which I find convenient for this. Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html