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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use compatibility regex library for OSX/Darwin
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:09:20 -0700
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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> It's too late to change diff.*.funcname now, but an alternative fix
> which would probably not require every other platform to use GNU regex,
> is to introduce a new funcname option which would allow extended regular
> expression syntax and to convert the internal regular expressions to
> that format.

That's a very sensible approach, I would agree.