how to apply patches from git ?

[Prashant Shah]

Hi Ravi,

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, RKK <kulkarni.ravi4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
> Sorry if this is a basic question.
> How do i take patches from e-mail?
>  for example git send mail sends patches as e-mail
>
> if someone wants to apply that patch to his branch then how do i get
> that in . patch format and then use
> patch -p1 *.patch  or is there something im missing here? thanks.

If its a public mailing list then I use a newsgroup reader that will
allow me to download the entire patch email as file and then use the
git apply on it.