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

From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Date: Jan 26, 2015, 22:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+5PVA7Hb1ppHFYA4wHC+uEyULk4m_7eX2FRNuisi1uOTagBEw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwa1-pudNus+r=5EghpGkm33h--GZNND5UHt=ZKvP15Xw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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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.

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

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> (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