Change the regex introduced in a03bc5b to use the \E...\Q escape syntax instead of using backslashes. It's more readable like this, and easier to grep for. Signed-off-by: Ãvar ArnfjÃrà Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-send-email.perl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index ce9b5eb..1218bbe 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ if (!defined $auto_8bit_encoding && scalar %broken_encoding) { if (!$force) { for my $f (@files) { - if (get_patch_subject($f) =~ /\*\*\* SUBJECT HERE \*\*\*/) { + if (get_patch_subject($f) =~ /\Q*** SUBJECT HERE ***\E/) { die "Refusing to send because the patch\n\t$f\n" . "has the template subject '*** SUBJECT HERE ***'. " . "Pass --force if you really want to send.\n"; -- 1.7.3.159.g610493 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html