Add patch to global.pp

[Jesse Keating]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 21:24, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/16/2009 08:50 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 19:59 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> What's the consensus here?
>>
>> If we install patch, will git come next, since people will want to  
>> git
>> am stuff?  Not that I'm against having patch, it would make things
>> easier.
>
> Well I won't be adding that one :-)
>
> Thinking about this more seriously, patch can be useful on text  
> files on
> any system.  git is only useful on systems where we're making git
> checkouts.  git-am, if I'm reading the man page right would only be
> useful where we have git checkouts and are receiving patches via mail?
>

Git am works on any file generated with git format-patch. That is most  
often used with email but it does encapsulate the author and the  
commit message and has a checksum itself that can be verified against  
the upstream repo. Probably not something we need in global.

--
Jes