Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:30:47 -0800 | Subject | Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Or did I miss a way that git-apply can take a git patch and apply it > to a tree that isn't a git repo?
Exactly. "git apply" works as a straight "patch" replacement outside of a git repository. It doesn't actually need a git tree to work.
(Of course, "git apply" is _not_ a "patch" replacement in the general sense. It only applies context diffs - preferentially git style ones - so no old-style patches etc need apply. And it's not replacement-compatible in a syntax sense either, in that while many of the options are the same, not all are etc etc).
Linus
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