Re: t7810.94 (git-grep -E -F -G) never passed

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!