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Re: git grep -P is multiline for negative lookahead/behind

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-01 21:42:29

Michael Giuffrida [off-list ref] 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?
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