diff --git a/contrib/source-control-tools/autopatch.sh b/contrib/source-control-tools/autopatch.sh
index 901cffb75..ddcef9e83 100755
--- a/contrib/source-control-tools/autopatch.sh
+++ b/contrib/source-control-tools/autopatch.sh
@@ -1,102 +1,104 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Copyright (c) 2019 The Bitcoin developers
+# Copyright (c) 2019-2020 The Bitcoin developers
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
 set -euxo pipefail
 
-DEFAULT_PATCH_ARGS="--skip-dependencies"
+# --force is necessary to skip the "sanity check" step, which conflicts with
+# stacked revisions that contain already-landed dependencies.
+DEFAULT_PATCH_ARGS="--skip-dependencies --force"
 DEFAULT_REMOTE="origin"
 DEFAULT_BRANCH="master"
 
 help_message() {
   set +x
   echo "Apply a patch from Phabricator cleanly on latest master."
   echo ""
   echo "Options:"
   echo "-b, --branch              The git branch to fetch and rebase onto. Default: '${DEFAULT_BRANCH}'"
   echo "-h, --help                Display this help message."
   echo "-o, --remote              The git remote to fetch latest from. Default: '${DEFAULT_REMOTE}'"
   echo "-p, --patch-args          Args to pass to 'arc patch'. Default: '${DEFAULT_PATCH_ARGS}'"
   echo "-r, --revision            The Differential revision ID used in Phabricator that you want to land. (ex: D1234)"
   echo "                            This argument is required if --patch-args does not specify a revision or diff ID."
   set -x
 }
 
 BRANCH="${DEFAULT_BRANCH}"
 PATCH_ARGS="${DEFAULT_PATCH_ARGS}"
 REMOTE="${DEFAULT_REMOTE}"
 REVISION=""
 
 # Parse command line arguments
 while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
 case $1 in
   -b|--branch)
     BRANCH="$2"
     shift # shift past argument
     shift # shift past value
     ;;
   -h|--help)
     help_message
     exit 0
     shift # shift past argument
     ;;
   -o|--remote)
     REMOTE="$2"
     shift # shift past argument
     shift # shift past value
     ;;
   -p|--patch-args)
     PATCH_ARGS="$2"
     shift # shift past argument
     shift # shift past value
     ;;
   -r|--revision)
     REVISION="$2"
     shift # shift past argument
     shift # shift past value
     ;;
   *)
     echo "Unknown argument: $1"
     help_message
     exit 1
     shift # shift past argument
     ;;
 esac
 done
 
 PATCH_ARGS="${REVISION} ${PATCH_ARGS}"
 
 # Make sure there are no unstaged changes, just in case this script is being run locally
 if [ -n "$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then
   echo "Error: The source tree has unexpected changes. Clean up any changes (try 'git stash') and try again."
   exit 10
 fi
 
 # Fetch and checkout latest changes, bailing if the branch isn't an ancestor of the remote branch.
 REMOTE_AND_BRANCH="${REMOTE}/${BRANCH}"
 git fetch "${REMOTE}" "${BRANCH}"
 git checkout "${BRANCH}"
 git merge-base --is-ancestor "${BRANCH}" "${REMOTE_AND_BRANCH}" || {
   echo "Error: Branch '${BRANCH}' is not an ancestor of '${REMOTE_AND_BRANCH}'"
   exit 11
 }
 git pull "${REMOTE}" "${BRANCH}"
 
 (
   # If arc fails, there may be a dangling branch. Clean it up before exiting.
   cleanup() {
     CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
     git checkout "${BRANCH}"
     git branch -D "${CURRENT_BRANCH}" || true
   }
   trap "cleanup" ERR
 
   # Note: `: | arc ...` pipes an empty string to stdin incase arcanist prompts
   # for user input. This fails and is treated as an error.
   : | arc patch ${PATCH_ARGS}
 )
 
 git rebase "${BRANCH}"