git bug: Perl compatible regular expressions do not work as expected

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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

Initilize a new git repo, create a simple C file that you commit into the new repo. Then search the git history using Perl compatible regular expression.

Basically,

mkdir test cd test git init

Create a file 

cat <<END > test.c
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
    return 0;
}
END 

git commit -m 'added test file'

Then run:

git log --all -p -G '\bmain\b'

git is compiled with pcre2 library support but does not find main word in the file we just added.

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) git compiled with pcre2 library should support Perl compatible regular expressions

What happened instead? (Actual behavior) Nothing is found, when in fact the search for term is present in the git history

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? git should print out the commit containing the search term.

Anything else you want to add:

git was compiled with pcre2 library. Here is output of otool -L

$ otool -L git
git:
	/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1069.24.0)
	/usr/local/lib/libpcre2-8.0.dylib (compatibility version 12.0.0, current version 12.2.0)
	/usr/local/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.13)
	/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
	/usr/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib (compatibility version 11.0.0, current version 11.0.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1281.100.1)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 1677.104.0)
	/usr/lib/libcharset.1.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.0.0)

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[System Info] git version: git version 2.40.0 cpu: x86_64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon uname: Darwin 19.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Tue Jun 21 21:18:39 PDT 2022; root:xnu-6153.141.66~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 compiler info: clang: 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.21) libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash

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