From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug: git grep -P and multiline mode
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:42:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa993cykl.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A7CF25.7060508@gmail.com> (Noel Grandin's message of "Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:54:29 +0200")
Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com> writes:
> It looks like the perl regular expression multiline mode does not work with 'git grep'
Yes, and deliberately so, to avoid having to think about things like
"how would a multi-line match interact with 'grep -n'?"
We behave as if we feed each line of the contents one line at a time
to the matching engine that is chosen by the -P/-E/-G/-F optoins, so
this limitation is unlikely to change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-23 17:42 UTC|newest]
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2014-06-23 6:54 bug: git grep -P and multiline mode Noel Grandin
2014-06-23 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-06-24 7:34 ` Noel Grandin
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