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From: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git grep: ^$ false match at end of file
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 23:52:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250109235255.GA3418@survex.com> (raw)

git grep '^$' seems to match at the end of the file, reporting a line
number one greater than the number of lines in that file.  This does
not match the behaviour of grep.

To reproduce:

$ git init -q git-grep-bug
$ cd git-grep-bug
$ echo test > test.txt
$ git add test.txt
$ git commit -m test
[master (root-commit) 55b48b26] test
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 test.txt
$ git grep -n '^$'
test.txt:2:
$ grep -n '^$' test.txt
$

(The -n option isn't required to trigger it.)

I'm using the git 1:2.47.1-1 packages from Debian unstable.  I can also
reproduce with git 1:2.48.0~rc1+next.20250101-1 from Debian
experimental.

Cheers,
    Olly

             reply	other threads:[~2025-01-10  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-09 23:52 Olly Betts [this message]
2025-01-10 11:43 ` git grep: ^$ false match at end of file Jeff King
2025-01-10 12:02   ` Jeff King
2025-01-10 12:59     ` Andreas Schwab
2025-01-13  6:26       ` Jeff King

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