Re: git grep -P is multiline for negative lookahead/behind
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Michael Giuffrida wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I do not think "git grep" was designed to do multi-line anything, >> with or without lookahead. If you imagine that the implementation >> attempts its matches line-by-line, does that explain the observed >> symptom? > > No. If it worked line-by-line, it would produce more results. It is > not producing the expected matches because it *is* considering the > previous line in negative lookbehind, when I don't want or expect it > to. Thus it throws out results that should match. If that is the case I do not know what is going on; perhaps somebody more familiar with the pcre codepath can help. Sorry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: git grep -P is multiline for negative lookahead/behind
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael Giuffrida writes: > >> Is this expected behavior, and if so, why/where is this documented? > > I do not think "git grep" was designed to do multi-line anything, > with or without lookahead. If you imagine that the implementation > attempts its matches line-by-line, does that explain the observed > symptom? No. If it worked line-by-line, it would produce more results. It is not producing the expected matches because it *is* considering the previous line in negative lookbehind, when I don't want or expect it to. Thus it throws out results that should match. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: git grep -P is multiline for negative lookahead/behind
Michael Giuffrida writes: > Is this expected behavior, and if so, why/where is this documented? I do not think "git grep" was designed to do multi-line anything, with or without lookahead. If you imagine that the implementation attempts its matches line-by-line, does that explain the observed symptom? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
