"Martin Langhoff" [off-list ref] writes:
when it comes to .dotest/patch, it must be reasonably accessible. When
git-am refuses to apply a patch, and I am resolving things by hand, I
need it pretty handy. I also sometimes edit .dotest/msg-clean.
Any serious "am" user shares the habit to edit .dotest/patch and
it would be VERY painful to change this, I suspect.
I do not mind shipping .dotest in the sample templates/info--exclude
file, though.