On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Josh Boyer [off-list ref] 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