How to apply a git patch from one repository to another?

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If manually editing the patch file is out of the question or infeasible, this can be done with standard options (available in git apply, git format-patch and GNU patch).

  1. -p<n> removes n leading directories from the paths in the patch.

  2. After processing -p, --directory=<root> prepends root to each of the paths in the patch before applying.

Example

So, for your example, to take a patch that was originally on static/playdar.js and apply it to lib/playdar.js, you would run:

$ cat patch_file | git am     \ 
          -p1                 \ # remove 1 leading directory ('static/')
         --directory='lib/'     # prepend 'lib/'

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