From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:10:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git rev-parse :/ "regex" syntax not really regex?
Message-ID: <87inzgtjfv.fsf@linux-m68k.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160417133741.GA28931@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de>

Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> writes:

> Unless I happened to misunderstand git's regex flavour, or something else...
> (hmm, perhaps it's a try-match-single-line vs. multi-line content issue,
> which perhaps does not work by specifying the trailing $)

This is exactly the difference.  git log --grep matches individual lines
(like grep), whereas :/<regexp> matches against the whole commit message
including embedded (and trailing) newlines, and $ doesn't match an
embedded newline.  Thus to address the second commit in your example you
have to use $':/^My commit\n' (using bash's ANSI-C quoting feature).

Andreas.

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