Re: grep: fix multibyte regex handling under macOS (1819ad327b7a1f19540a819813b70a0e8a7f798f)

From: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2023, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CALnO6CAZ_RMirOwQqJyqJrq2dY1w09eV1h=0JFosYSb7XhyQVQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsffpz05o.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 1:54 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> There was a discussion on BRE having and not having GNU-like
> extension on macOS, in this thread
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/26a0d4ca-3d97-ace4-1a1f-92b1ee6715a6@web.de/
>
> The patch we ended up using avoids touching the behaviour with ERE,
> as REG_ENHANCED on macOS affects REG_EXTENDED, but the issue we were
> looking at in the thread was about BRE.
>

Are you suggesting that I try with `-P` and/or `-E`?

CC'ing the original author of https://github.com/git/git/commit/1819ad327b7a1f19540a819813b70a0e8a7f798f, which I suspect is the most relevant.

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D. Ben Knoble