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

[Josh Boyer]

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
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