title: Git apply patch fails silently (no errors but nothing happens)
body: <p>I'm trying to apply a patch, and git apply patch doesn't give me any errors:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sashoalm@SASHOALM-PC /c/Workspace/tesseract-git/api (master)
  $ git apply ../../commit-d0d9477
  
  sashoalm@SASHOALM-PC /c/Workspace/tesseract-git/api (master)
  $
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see, no error messages are given. But when I open the history, nothing is committed, and the index is empty. It's as if I haven't issued the <code>git apply</code> command.</p>
  
  <p>I'm at a loss how to troubleshoot this, since there no errors to Google.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> I forgot to say, but I'm trying to transplant my patches from a repository of Tesseract, where I got the source without version control, created my own empty git repo, and made some commits. Later I cloned the Tesseract repository using <code>git svn</code>, and now I'm trying to move my patches there.</p>