René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Currently, patterns that contain newline characters don't match anything > when given to git grep. Regular grep(1) interprets patterns as lists of > newline separated search strings instead. > > Implement this functionality by creating and inserting extra grep_pat > structures for patterns consisting of multiple lines when appending to > the pattern lists. For simplicity, all pattern strings are duplicated. > The original pattern is truncated in place to make it contain only the > first line. Thanks for a fix; I am assuming that the duplication for simplicity is not for simplified allocation but primarily for a simpler freeing? -- 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