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From: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Fix "grep -w"
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:19:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <118833cc0608051219q7e19800alc05870058973c2e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwt9ng3t1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

1. Are you sure that going to the end of the first match is correct?
It seems to
   me that this will skip matches.  Say you search for ".*" on a line that reads
   " xxx".

2. What about "^"?

3. What about empty matches?  That could take a while...

Morten

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-05 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-05  5:16 [RFC/PATCH] Fix "grep -w" Junio C Hamano
2006-08-05 19:19 ` Morten Welinder [this message]
2006-08-05 21:08   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-06  8:39     ` Junio C Hamano

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