Re: [PATCH] grep -P: Fix matching ^ and $

> Michał Kiedrowicz<michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> When `git-grep` is run with -P/--perl-regexp, it doesn't match ^ and $ at
>> the beginning/end of the line.  This is because PCRE normally matches ^
>> and $ at the beginning/end of the whole text, not for each line, and git-grep
>> firstly passes a large chunk of text (possibly containing many lines) to
>> pcre_exec() before it splits the text into lines.  This makes `git-grep -P`
>> behave differently from `git-grep -E` and also from `grep -P` and `pcregrep`: