Problem with git-apply?

[Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@disenchant.net>]

Hi,

I seem to be having problems using git-apply to apply any patch which
creates a new file. Unfortunately it's been a few weeks since I last
used git here locally, but this seems like some behaviour change since
the last version I was using. I'm currently using version 1.4.3.3 from
Debian Sid. This little test script demonstrates the problem I'm
having:

#!/bin/sh

mkdir a b repo
echo foo > b/foo
diff -urN a b > test.diff

(
    cd repo
    echo bar > bar # need something to init the db
    git init-db
    git add .
    git commit -a -m "Test Commit"

    git apply ../test.diff
    git commit -a -m "Test Commit (file added)"
)

Here, this outputs for me:

defaulting to local storage area
Committing initial tree ee314a31b622b027c10981acaed7903a3607dbd4
error: foo: No such file or directory
nothing to commit

Has something broken or am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks,