On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html