Subject: Re: Test failures when Git is built with libpcre and grep is built without it

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:05:44 +0100

On Jan 09 2017, "A. Wilcox" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Interestingly enough, you seem to be right.  The failure is very
> bizarre and has nothing to do with system /bin/grep:
>
> test_must_fail: command succeeded: git grep -G -F -P -E a\x{2b}b\x{2a}c ab
> not ok 142 - grep -G -F -P -E pattern
> #
> #               >empty &&
> #               test_must_fail git grep -G -F -P -E "a\x{2b}b\x{2a}c"
> ab >actual &&
> #               test_cmp empty actual
> #
>
> However:
>
> elaine trash directory.t7810-grep # git grep -G -F -P -E
> a\x{2b}b\x{2a}c ab >actual

You need to quote the regexp argument, see the line starting with
"test_must_fail" above.

Andreas.

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