| Age | Commit message (Expand) | Author |
|---|
| 2024-03-22 | add "-V none" to prevent making any backups | Joshua Stein |
| 2022-03-31 | man pages: add missing commas between subordinate and main clauses | Christian Weisgerber |
| 2022-02-18 | Avoid gendered language in man pages when not referring to a specific | Jonathan Gray |
| 2021-12-21 | state up front that patch(1) operates on text files, | Ingo Schwarze |
| 2021-11-09 | -i may not be specified multiple times; from josh grosse | Jason McIntyre |
| 2018-06-22 | Add --dry-run as synonym to -C/--check. | Vadim Zhukov |
| 2018-04-11 | Stop telling patch(1) runs ed(1). | Vadim Zhukov |
| 2015-07-26 | Remove support for automatically checking files out of RCS. The | Todd C. Miller |
| 2015-03-13 | remove the first comma from constructs like ", and," and ", or,": you can use | Jason McIntyre |
| 2014-11-22 | Remove SCCS support. For this to work, we would need "get", which we don't | Tobias Stoeckmann |
| 2014-04-15 | patch was moved from user portability (UP) to base in issue 7 | Jason McIntyre |
| 2010-09-03 | add an EXIT STATUS section for /usr/bin; | Jason McIntyre |
| 2009-02-08 | updates to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008; | Jason McIntyre |
| 2009-02-08 | bump the posix reference in STANDARDS to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, with a few | Jason McIntyre |
| 2008-10-19 | over-rule -> overrule; from Thomas Pfaff | Jason McIntyre |
| 2008-06-06 | update the description of -b and STANDARDS; suggested by grunk | Jason McIntyre |
| 2008-01-11 | providing MLINKS for shell builtins makes little sense: what we had was out | Jason McIntyre |
| 2007-05-31 | convert to new .Dd format; | Jason McIntyre |
| 2007-05-31 | - note some apps which are xpg4, not posix | Jason McIntyre |
| 2007-04-18 | adds a detailed synopsis to the man page; sorts options in | Igor Sobrado |
| 2003-10-31 | o fairly major man page reorganization | Todd C. Miller |
| 2003-07-31 | Historically, patch would treat a bare -p as -p0. This contradicts | Todd C. Miller |
| 2003-07-30 | Add POSIX -i option; tedu@ OK | Todd C. Miller |
| 2003-07-28 | Be more exact on how backup files are handled. | Otto Moerbeek |
| 2003-07-28 | Make patch(1) exit value match POSIX and be consistent with diff. | Todd C. Miller |
| 2003-07-25 | Add POSIX -b option but don't change the default beahvior wrt backups | Todd C. Miller |
| 2003-07-24 | "options" not "switches"; jmc@ OK | Todd C. Miller |
| 2003-07-24 | Don't talk about ~ and # suffixes for orig and reject files since we | Todd C. Miller |
| 2003-07-24 | mdoc version; | Jason McIntyre |
| 2003-07-22 | Use getopt_long() to parse options instead of rolling our own. | Todd C. Miller |
| 2003-07-18 | remove junk; ok otto tedu | Theo de Raadt |
| 2003-02-18 | copyrights added; | Jason McIntyre |
| 2003-01-06 | typo; jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl | Theo de Raadt |
| 1999-06-05 | - remove trailing white space | Aaron Campbell |
| 1998-11-25 | add -C | Marc Espie |
| 1996-06-10 | Support the long options that FSF's patch version has. $OpenBSD$ added | Niklas Hallqvist |
| 1995-10-18 | initial import of NetBSD tree | Theo de Raadt |
