git cl patch should work for Gerrit. If it doesn‘t, that’s a bug.

Can you clarify what output git cl patch is giving?

You are right, it works. I made a mistake when trying to test "git cl patch" which is why it failed for me.

Changing the summary to only address "apply_issue.py". Personally I always used to use apply_issue.py when dealing with Rietveld. Changing apply_issue.py to say unsupported for Gerrit and to use "git cl patch" instead will be a good enough solution IMO.

Well, apply_issue claims to apply issues 'for rietveld'. What arguments have you supplied to it? I'm trying to understand under which circumstances could apply_issue detect it's being used for Gerrit and exit with a good message.

Yea I took a look at it as well and could not come up with an easy way to detect it's Gerrit without having access to the stuff in git_cl.py

I had earlier tried to use it the same way I did for Rietveld CLs:
apply_issue.py -i 2741

Admittedly this is not critical because as you said 'apply_issue.py --help' says 'Applies an issue from Rietveld'. This can either be a P3 or punted to a different Milestone.

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"git cl try" is the canonical way to apply issues from Gerrit. apply_issue.py will be entirely deleted in the near future.