Get error message ''fatal: sha1 information is lacking or useless“ when apply a patch using ”git am -3"

Question

I am trying to apply a series of patches from 1 git repository to another git repository using git am -3 \"path to a patch\". I apply them in order, from patch 1-4, it works

Answer 1

Just did the following and was able to solve this issue:

patch -p1 < example.patch