From dd844e1ef9cd144dbeb0af75348273ba83aac064 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 02:37:14 -0500
Subject: rethinking this

---
 patch.common.go | 13 +++++++++++++
 patch.proto     |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 patch.common.go

diff --git a/patch.common.go b/patch.common.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..01d4cc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patch.common.go
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package forgepb
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+func (pb *Patch) Error(err any) error {
+	return fmt.Errorf("%v", err)
+}
+
+func (pb *Patches) Error(err any) error {
+	return fmt.Errorf("%v", err)
+}
diff --git a/patch.proto b/patch.proto
index 4517c26..aa06095 100644
--- a/patch.proto
+++ b/patch.proto
@@ -66,5 +66,5 @@ message Patches {                                        // `autogenpb:marshal`
         string                      version        = 2;  // `autogenpb:version:v2.0.0`
         repeated Patch              patches        = 3;
         string                      filename       = 4;  // `autogenpb:save` -- this enables autogenerated pb.Load() and pb.Save()
-        string                      Error          = 5;  // when passing these around, if there is an error, store it here
+        string                      Errors         = 5;  // `autogenpb:error`
 }
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