> If you patch files from your git repo you can:
> -execute "git diff" to generate the diff between the
> current state of
> the repo and the last committed change
> -execute "git checkout -- ." to reset all your changes
> so there should be no reason not to patch the local copy of
> the git repo
> (except to publish build scripts for final releases).

I'll give that a try.

Darrell