Making git apply always work relative to current directory

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>]

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I have a piece of software which must run out of a given directory.  In
development, this is a git repository, and in production it is not.  I
also have an ignored subdirectory where I would like to use git apply to
apply patches (in both environments).

If I run git apply --no-index --verbose <patch>, it succeeds in both
cases, but when I'm in the git repository, it *silently does nothing*.
I have to provide a --directory argument in order for it to function
underneath the repository, but of course that doesn't work when the
directory isn't within a repository.  --unsafe-paths did not seem to
make a difference.  I'm using Git 2.7.2.

Is there a way to tell git apply that it should apply relative to the
current working directory, no matter what?  I'm happy to send a patch to
either the documentation or git apply if necessary.
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