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-rw-r--r--builtin/add.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c
index 8a155dd41e..160a4944fc 100644
--- a/builtin/add.c
+++ b/builtin/add.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static int edit_patch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
rev.diffopt.output_format = DIFF_FORMAT_PATCH;
rev.diffopt.use_color = 0;
rev.diffopt.flags.ignore_dirty_submodules = 1;
- out = open(file, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0666);
+ out = open(file, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0666);
if (out < 0)
die(_("Could not open '%s' for writing."), file);
rev.diffopt.file = xfdopen(out, "w");