Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

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

quoted

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.

Ah.  I had somehow missed that entirely.  Good to know for future reference.

(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).

Sure.  Though for the Fedora kernel builds, we tend to use git
formatted patches only anyway.  I might play around with this and see
how it works as the normal way to apply things.

josh