2010/12/16 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Empty regex pattern should always match. But the exact behavior of
>> regexec() may vary. Because it always matches anyway, we can just
>> return 'matched' without calling regex machinery.
>
> Hmm, I just noticed that "git grep -e '' Makefile" fails on FBSD8 for
> the same reason.
>
> I'd prefer a solution that is not about "special case $commit^{/}" but is
> about "work around regcomp that cannot compile an empty regexp".
Hmm.. if there is no compilation phase, we can redefine a macro to
workaround. Perhaps prefer compat/regex to FBSD's implementation?
--
Duy
--
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