diff --git a/DEPS b/DEPS
index b6271a163b..78c6b414ad 100644
--- a/DEPS
+++ b/DEPS
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ deps = {
   "vendor/node": "https://github.com/brave/node.git@7535fd34c36a40403743af5bf71c5b79b3f0bb6d",
   "vendor/requests": "https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests@e4d59bedfd3c7f4f254f4f5d036587bcd8152458",
   "vendor/boto": "https://github.com/boto/boto@f7574aa6cc2c819430c1f05e9a1a1a666ef8169b",
-  "vendor/python-patch": "https://github.com/svn2github/python-patch@a336a458016ced89aba90dfc3f4c8222ae3b1403",
 }
 
 hooks = [
diff --git a/script/apply-patches.py b/script/apply-patches.py
index abc940dfc4..491ba21f94 100755
--- a/script/apply-patches.py
+++ b/script/apply-patches.py
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@
 
 SOURCE_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
 PATCHES_DIR = os.path.join(SOURCE_ROOT, 'patches')
-VENDOR_DIR = os.path.join(SOURCE_ROOT, 'vendor')
 SRC_DIR = os.path.join(SOURCE_ROOT, '..', '..', 'src')
-PATCH_PY = os.path.join(VENDOR_DIR, 'python-patch', 'patch.py')
+GIT_EXE = 'git'
 
 
 def main():
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ def main():
 
   sys.stderr.write(error + '\n')
   sys.stderr.flush()
-  revert_changes_for_dir(PATCHES_DIR)
   return 1
 
 
@@ -27,27 +25,17 @@ def apply_patches_for_dir(directory):
   for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
     prefix = os.path.relpath(root, directory)
     target = os.path.join(SRC_DIR, prefix)
-    args = [sys.executable, PATCH_PY, '--directory', target, '--quiet']
+    args = [GIT_EXE, 'apply', '--unsafe-paths', '--directory=' +
+            os.path.normpath(target)]
     for name in sorted(files):
       if not name.endswith('.patch'):
         continue
       patch = os.path.join(root, name)
-      if subprocess.call(args + [patch]):
+      args += [patch]
+      print(' '.join(args))
+      if subprocess.call(args):
         return '{0} failed to apply'.format(os.path.basename(patch))
 
 
-def revert_changes_for_dir(directory):
-  for root, dirs, files in reversed(list(os.walk(directory))):
-    prefix = os.path.relpath(root, directory)
-    target = os.path.join(SRC_DIR, prefix)
-    args = [sys.executable, PATCH_PY, '--directory', target, '--quiet',
-            '--revert']
-    for name in reversed(sorted(files)):
-      if not name.endswith('.patch'):
-        continue
-      patch = os.path.join(root, name)
-      subprocess.call(args + [patch])
-
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     sys.exit(main())