Michael Greene said that he doesn't think we should mark issues as "patch available" unless it has been uploaded as an attachment to JIRA. I find the upload process tedious, so I wrote a script to export patches directly from Git and upload them into JIRA using the SOAP API. I caved and hosted it on GitHub:
http://github.com/dreiss/git-jira-attacher/tree/master Hopefully other Git users will find it useful (especially if MicroSoft lets them write code again ;-) ). --David