From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:52:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep -P: Fix matching ^ and $
Message-ID: <4F491FF8.9070609@in.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20120225103050.14f52a91@gmail.com>

On 02/25/2012 10:30 AM, Michał Kiedrowicz wrote:
> 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`:

Thanks! I can confirm that I now get the expected output.

Zbyszek

> Original report:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/190830