From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:23:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_sha1: handle special case $commit^{/}
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In-Reply-To: <7v8vzqppo3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

2010/12/16 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Empty regex pattern should always match. But the exact behavior of
>> regexec() may vary. Because it always matches anyway, we can just
>> return 'matched' without calling regex machinery.
>
> Hmm, I just noticed that "git grep -e '' Makefile" fails on FBSD8 for
> the same reason.
>
> I'd prefer a solution that is not about "special case $commit^{/}" but is
> about "work around regcomp that cannot compile an empty regexp".

Hmm.. if there is no compilation phase, we can redefine a macro to
workaround. Perhaps prefer compat/regex to FBSD's implementation?
-- 
Duy