Re: [PATCH v13 3/3] grep/pcre2: fix an edge case concerning ascii patterns and UTF-8 data

On Thu, Nov 18 2021, René Scharfe wrote:

Am 18.11.21 um 19:17 schrieb Junio C Hamano:

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

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I guess this is a lot of change in the amount of text involved but
the least amount of actual change in the behaviour.  For those with
newer PCREv2, the behaviour would be the same as v2.34.0, and for
others, the behaviour would be the same as v2.33.0.

Having said all that, because the consensus seems to be that the
whole "when we should match in UTF mode" may need to be rethought, I
think reverting Hamza's [v13 3/3] would be the simplest way to clean
up the mess for v2.34.1 that will give us a cleaner slate to later
build on, than applying this patch.

Makes sense to me.  It gives a better starting point to solve the issue
afresh without getting entangled in mind-melting boolean expressions.

Yes, agreed. As noted I haven't had time to dig deeply into this, but
from what I've seen so far there doesn't seem to be any obvious way
forward in terms of a quick fix.

I thought perhaps your patch would be that (but I haven't looked into it
carefully enough), but since you're on-board with reverting & retrying.