Tracking: stabilization of "patch" feature

[dsherret]

// deno.json
{
  "patch": [
    "../some-package-or-workspace"
  ]
}

#25068

Questions:

• Is "patch" an ok name? Isn't it confusing with the idea of "patching a package" where you modify a package in the vendor or node_modules directory? What better alternatives are there?
• Can this work with git repositories? How does that work?
• What about patching to a remote specifier?

To implement:

• Patching npm packages.
• Improving error messages to recommend using the patch feature (Local Module Imports & Invalid Relative Path Errors #26704)

[lucacasonato]

I think patch is a reasonable name.

[Hajime-san]

Hi, I created a minimal example for the current patch feature.
If you find any mistakes, please let me know.

• https://github.com/Hajime-san/example_deno_unstable_patch

[birkskyum]

does this do something similar to pnpm patch https://pnpm.io/cli/patch? because then patch is a great name.