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I wrote a little shell script to scratch an itch: git-squash-paths.
Its README.md file on GitHub explains my motivation behind the writing this script.
What the exercise highlighted to me, however, was that we lack a notion of strong portability of patches across contexts. Strong portability would mean that we’re able to safely re-arrange patches to rebuild context in different ways. But patches tend to be highly context-dependent today, both syntactically (e.g. diffs depending on adjacent lines) and semantically (e.g. update to X applying only if Y has a specific definition). Furthermore, dependencies are loosely managed: changes in the same patch are implied to be related (but may not be), and changes across patches may or may not be truly dependent on each other (i.e., requiring a specific order of update).