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From: Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com>
Subject: bug: git grep -P and multiline mode
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:54:29 +0200
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Hi

It looks like the perl regular expression multiline mode does not work with 'git grep'

for example, something like

    git grep -P '(?s)foo.*?bar"

will not match a file in the repo where it has something like

    foo
    bar

ie. split across two lines

Regards, Noel Grandin