angular/angular.js — pull request #5894 by cironunes (2014-01-20 13:32:10+00:00)
Title: fix($http): add the PATCH shortcut back

The shortcut was dropped because it had a lot of unkowns about PATCH.
Since we already know that using PATCH is good (http://www.mnot.net/blog/2012/09/05/patch), and only IE8 has issues with that, let's add the shortcut back.

Closes #5823