diff --git a/source/platforms/git/diffToGitJSONDSL.ts b/source/platforms/git/diffToGitJSONDSL.ts
index 1d67adb47..f767402ff 100644
--- a/source/platforms/git/diffToGitJSONDSL.ts
+++ b/source/platforms/git/diffToGitJSONDSL.ts
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@ import { GitJSONDSL } from "../../dsl/GitDSL"
  */
 
 export const diffToGitJSONDSL = (diff: string, commits: GitCommit[]): GitJSONDSL => {
-  const fileDiffs: any[] = parseDiff(diff)
+  const fileDiffs: parseDiff.File[] = parseDiff(diff)
 
-  const addedDiffs = fileDiffs.filter((diff: any) => diff["new"])
-  const removedDiffs = fileDiffs.filter((diff: any) => diff["deleted"])
-  const modifiedDiffs = fileDiffs.filter((diff: any) => !includes(addedDiffs, diff) && !includes(removedDiffs, diff))
+  const addedDiffs = fileDiffs.filter((diff: parseDiff.File) => diff.new == true) as any[]
+  const removedDiffs = fileDiffs.filter((diff: parseDiff.File) => diff.deleted == true) as any[]
+  const modifiedDiffs = fileDiffs.filter(
+    (diff: any) => !includes(addedDiffs, diff) && !includes(removedDiffs, diff)
+  ) as any[]
 
   return {
     //                                             Work around for danger/danger-js#807
diff --git a/source/platforms/github/GitHubAPI.ts b/source/platforms/github/GitHubAPI.ts
index c02ff29f6..65a9eee6e 100644
--- a/source/platforms/github/GitHubAPI.ts
+++ b/source/platforms/github/GitHubAPI.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ const limit = pLimit(25)
 export interface GitHubFile {
   filename: string
   patch: string
+  status: string
 }
 
 // Note that there are parts of this class which don't seem to be
@@ -373,8 +374,17 @@ export class GitHubAPI {
     // This is a hack to get the file patch into a format that parse-diff accepts
     // as the GitHub API for listing pull request files is missing file names in the patch.
     function prefixedPatch(file: GitHubFile): string {
+      let fileMode = ""
+      if (file.status == "added") {
+        fileMode = "new file mode"
+      } else if (file.status == "removed") {
+        fileMode = "deleted file mode"
+      } else if (file.status == "modified") {
+        fileMode = "modified file mode"
+      }
       return `
 diff --git a/${file.filename} b/${file.filename}
+${fileMode} 0
 --- a/${file.filename}
 +++ b/${file.filename}
 ${file.patch}
diff --git a/source/platforms/github/_tests/_github_api.test.ts b/source/platforms/github/_tests/_github_api.test.ts
index f9eb74a4a..0b4bf3bba 100644
--- a/source/platforms/github/_tests/_github_api.test.ts
+++ b/source/platforms/github/_tests/_github_api.test.ts
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ describe("API testing", () => {
       json: jest
         .fn()
         .mockImplementation(() =>
-          Promise.resolve<GitHubFile[]>(JSON.parse('[{"filename": "file.txt", "patch": "+ hello"}]'))
+          Promise.resolve<GitHubFile[]>(JSON.parse('[{"filename": "file.txt", "status": "added", "patch": "+ hello"}]'))
         ),
     })
 
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ describe("API testing", () => {
 
     let expected = `
 diff --git a/file.txt b/file.txt
+new file mode 0
 --- a/file.txt
 +++ b/file.txt
 + hello