From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:59:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git grep: ^$ false match at end of file
Message-ID: <87r05ahljt.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20250110120223.GC1014503@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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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