From: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:22:30 GMT
Subject: Re: t7810.94 (git-grep -E -F -G) never passed
Message-ID: <loom.20110525T231844-341@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1AEF57D5-49E0-4F37-BE8D-DEBD25965D83@gernhardtsoftware.com>

Brian Gernhardt <brian <at> gernhardtsoftware.com> writes:

> 
> Some would be right.  I tend to find that the BSD (and BSD-like) libraries on
OS X are more strict and have less
> features than the GNU equivalents.  (The fact that OS X's libreadline is
actually the only mostly
> compatible libedit drives me batty sometimes.)
> 
> This does leave us with the question of what to do with the test.  Perhaps a
pattern like "a*+b" to match
> "aa+b"?  Plain + should always match just + in a BRE, even if \+ is special,
and the * makes sure that it is a
> regex instead of plain string matching.
> 
> ~~ Brian
> 
> 

You're right about \+ in BRE. I guess I missed that because glibc's
implementation isn't strict BRE. I'll post a patch that fixes this problem.
Thanks for catching this up!