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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: git diff looping?
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:39:39AM -0700, John Bito wrote:

> I believe the issue is that Solaris implements 'extended' regular
> expressions only in regcomp/regexec.  The implementation of
> regcmp/regex seems to be from SysV and supports only 'basic' regular
> expressions.

The regexps in question end up being compiled by regcomp (see
xdiff-interface.c:xdiff_set_find_func), so I don't think that is the
issue.

-Peff