Git apply skips patches

Question

I\'m trying to apply a patch that includes binary files with git apply but only the files are added. I tried running git apply failing.patch -v and it

Answer 1

Suffering this issue whilst attempting to port changes across projects. git apply seems to ignore any directory names on the patch file paths, also it refuses to apply if the Index line does not match a file hash in the target repository. I had better success using these options (of which --no-index seems to be undocumented):

git apply --verbose --no-index --directory {subdir} {patch-file}