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Apply a patch directly from a URL without downloading it first.
#!/bin/bash
# Downloads and applies a patch from Drupal.org.
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "You need to supply a URL to a patch file."
exit
fi
URL=$1;
# Download a patch and apply it.
curl $URL | git apply -v --index
# Commit patch and add a log message.
git commit -m "Applied $URL."
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fed51 commented Mar 17, 2020

In the commit line, you could use parameter expansion to cleanup the URL and to display just the patch file name.

git commit -m "Applied ${URL##*/}."

The result would be "Applied <file.patch>" as opposed to a potentially long ugly commit message.

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