How do you apply patch file downloaded from gerrit?

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Fantastic Mr Fox picture Fantastic Mr Fox · Jun 11, 2016 · Viewed 11.7k times · Source

In Gerrit, under the download section for a change, there is a section that allows you to download the Patch-File:

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Using git apply results in:

$ git apply 441eb56b.diff.base64
fatal: unrecognized input

What command do I use to apply this patch?

Answer

pestophagous picture pestophagous · Feb 4, 2017 
base64 --decode c6a9dcdb.diff.base64 > c6a9dcdb.diff
git apply c6a9dcdb.diff

(Replace c6a9dcdb with whatever abbreviated commit hash Gerrit gave you.)

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