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Re: git grep: ^$ false match at end of file

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Jan 10, 2025, 12:59 UTC
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On Jan 10 2025, Jeff King wrote:
> but it is weird to me that patmatch() will match "^$" to the end of the
> buffer at all. It is just calling regexec_buf() behind the scenes, so I
> guess this is just a weird special case there, and may even depend on
> the regex implementation.
Shouldn't the matcher be called with REG_NOTEOL in that case?
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