On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 10:04 -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. I don't know why "git apply" doesn't do it by default. Why would you want to apply a patch without having git track new files? This burnt me a few times when working with the -rt patch until I found to use "--index" always. -- Steve -- 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