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Re: git-prompt.sh incompatible with non-basic global grep.patternType

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 22, 2016, 20:33 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> But even that is a lesser breakage than taking away grep.extendedRegexp
> entirely. Taking it away breaks anybody who uses it; tweaking (2) only
> breaks people who set both config variables. But why would anyone do
> that?

OK. Now we have an evidence that we have thought things through that we can point at when people later complain, I'd feel much safer to apply that "This will break t7810" patch, together with changes to t7810 to drop these crazy expectations ;-)

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  1. Richard SoderbergJul 18, 2016
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 19, 2016
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  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 19, 2016
  5. Jeff KingJul 20, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2016
  7. Jeff KingJul 20, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2016
  9. Jeff KingJul 22, 2016
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2016
  11. Jeff KingJul 22, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 22, 2016
  13. Eric SunshineJul 22, 2016
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