Subject: Re: git grep: ^$ false match at end of file

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:59:18 +0100

On Jan 10 2025, Jeff King wrote:

> but it is weird to me that patmatch() will match "^$" to the end of the
> buffer at all. It is just calling regexec_buf() behind the scenes, so I
> guess this is just a weird special case there, and may even depend on
> the regex implementation.

Shouldn't the matcher be called with REG_NOTEOL in that case?

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