Git format-patch viewer?

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Somebody is sending me patches generated by "git format-patch".

Is there a gui (on linux) that can open these .patch files?

I've tried many diff gui but all they do is compare two existing files/folders. None can display the patch, except kompare which spits a "The diff is malformed. Some lines could not be parsed and will not be displayed in the diff view." everytime.

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Git Cola includes an "Apply Patches" dialog that can be launched from the Actions menu, or via the git cola am sub-command. You can open patches in this dialog and display the contents with diff syntax highlighting.

This feature is available in master by cloning the repo and will be in the upcoming v3.3 release.

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