Brian Gernhardt venit, vidit, dixit 25.05.2011 05:27: > I'm not sure why it's supposed to pass, actually. -G makes the pattern be a basic regex and basic regexen don't recognize the + repetition operator. > > expecting success: > echo ab:aab >expected && > git grep -E -F -G a\\+b >actual && > test_cmp expected actual > > --- expected 2011-05-25 03:19:05.000000000 +0000 > +++ actual 2011-05-25 03:19:05.000000000 +0000 > @@ -1 +1 @@ > -ab:aab > +ab:a+b > not ok - 94 grep -E -F -G pattern "Never" is a strong statement when this test always passed for everyone else running tests, assuming they would have reported otherwise. What's your system? reg-ex.info says: "The other BRE metacharacters require a backslash to give them their special meaning." "Some implementations support \? and \+... but \? and \+ are not part of the POSIX standard." So I guess we're going with "some". Michael -- 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