add "-V none" to prevent making any backups

from FreeBSD

ok bluhm deraadt

man pages: add missing commas between subordinate and main clauses

jmc@ dislikes a comma before "then" in a conditional, so leave those
untouched.

ok jmc@

Avoid gendered language in man pages when not referring to a specific
person. Rewrite or use singular they.

ok thfr@ sthen@ daniel@ ian@ job@ kmos@ jcs@ ratchov@ phessler@ and
others I'm likely miss

Avoid gendered language in man pages when not referring to a specific
person. Rewrite or use singular they.

ok thfr@ sthen@ daniel@ ian@ job@ kmos@ jcs@ ratchov@ phessler@ and
others I'm likely missing on an earlier version.
feedback tj@, feedback and ok jmc@

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state up front that patch(1) operates on text files,
fixing an omission pointed out by chrisz@;
OK jmc@ deraadt@ chrisz@

-i may not be specified multiple times; from josh grosse
ok millert

Add --dry-run as synonym to -C/--check.

FreeBSD and NetBSD has this for a while, and GNU patch got it even earlier
than we got -C.

input from sthen@ & jca@; okay sthen@, jca@ and deraadt@.

Stop telling patch(1) runs ed(1).

okay tb@ and benno@

Remove support for automatically checking files out of RCS. The
behavior is confusing to users and even GNU patch no longer does
it by default. OK krw@ guenther@

remove the first comma from constructs like ", and," and ", or,": you can use
"and" and "or" to join sentence clauses, and you can use commas, but both hinders
reading;

Remove SCCS support. For this to work, we would need "get", which we don't
even have in ports. XSI functionality of POSIX, therefore optional.

ok deraadt, schwarze, tedu

patch was moved from user portability (UP) to base in issue 7
and is no longer optional;

add an EXIT STATUS section for /usr/bin;

updates to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008;

bump the posix reference in STANDARDS to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, with a few
updates to follow;

over-rule -> overrule; from Thomas Pfaff

update the description of -b and STANDARDS; suggested by grunk
ok millert

providing MLINKS for shell builtins makes little sense: what we had was out
of date for ever (no ksh builtins), and since we have two shells, pointing
to one page or the other is never going to work;

providing MLINKS for shell builtins makes little sense: what we had was out
of date for ever (no ksh builtins), and since we have two shells, pointing
to one page or the other is never going to work; so remove MLINKS for
csh(1); the cd(1) and wait(1) pages (also builtins); and update any trailing
Xr's;

please, there are tools like whence, man, and locate for finding this stuff;

ok deraadt miod

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convert to new .Dd format;

- note some apps which are xpg4, not posix
- note that some apps are optional to posix

after some discussion w/ otto

adds a detailed synopsis to the man page; sorts options in
the description list and adds missing arguments; syncs usage()

written with a lot of useful advice by jmc@

ok by jmc@

o fairly major man page reorganization
o add --posix option for strict POSIX conformance
o change filename determination to match GNU patch
Tested by various people, including a full ports build by n

o fairly major man page reorganization
o add --posix option for strict POSIX conformance
o change filename determination to match GNU patch
Tested by various people, including a full ports build by naddy@

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Historically, patch would treat a bare -p as -p0. This contradicts
POSIX and GNU patch has also removed this, so we will too. No
objections on icb (no one even seemed to know about this "feature").

Add POSIX -i option; tedu@ OK

Be more exact on how backup files are handled.
ok millert@ tedu@

Make patch(1) exit value match POSIX and be consistent with diff.
Comments and OK from otto@