Mysterious `applypatch' in any cygwin package?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 09/02/2025 19:46, Soren via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello Cygwin community,
> 
> I've got a small issue. Out there in the oosphere there is mention of a
> tool called "applypatch", and I went looking for it in cygwin pkgs. Using
> the invocation
> 
> `cygcheck -f applypatch'

not the way to look for a package, see below.

> I don't find any packages that supply "applypatch" or "applypatch.exe" but
> now when I am writing this I recall seeing some connection to `git', I just
> can't reproduce what I did to stumble across that.
> 
> In addition to my question about "applypatch", I am wondering about
> something else. I've got git version 2.45.1, and I am puzzled by the
> existence of "git" in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin.
> 
> $ type -ap git.exe
> /usr/local/bin/git.exe
> /usr/bin/git.exe

$ cygcheck -p applypatch
Found 3 matches for applypatch
..
git-2.45.1-1 - git: Distributed version control system

but

$ cygcheck -l git | grep applypatch
/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample
/usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample

so the only applypatch's seem potential hooks for git.

About the second question, cygwin packages are NEVER
installed in /usr/local

$ cygcheck -l git | grep bin/git
/usr/bin/git-receive-pack.exe
/usr/bin/git-shell.exe
/usr/bin/git-upload-archive.exe
/usr/bin/git-upload-pack.exe
/usr/bin/git.exe

so /usr/local/bin/git.exe is not coming from the Cygwin package.

Regards
Marco