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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2023, 22:15 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7cx1yqu9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CALnO6CAZ_RMirOwQqJyqJrq2dY1w09eV1h=0JFosYSb7XhyQVQ@mail.gmail.com>

"D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:

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

No. I was just giving a concrete URL for what I think demerphq was referring to as "saw some discussion recently".