From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: normalperson at yhbt.net (Eric Wong)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 06:40:52 +0000
Subject: Feature request: "plain" diff display mode
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Kerrick Staley <kerrick at kerrickstaley.com> wrote:
> It'd be useful if cgit could display plain-text diffs, similar to the
> "plain" blob display mode. This would allow you to run e.g.
> 
> curl <plain-diff-url> | patch -p1
> 
> It looks like [1] implements this feature, but I'm not sure.
> 
> - Kerrick
> 
> [1]
> http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=445f6ae8e3ef19b6ca70e741e934778bc4a05555

Just replace "/commit/" with "/patch/" in the URL.
IIRC, cgit has had this for a long time.

I use curl + (patch|git am|git apply) like this often, too!