Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > It looks like the perl regular expression multiline mode does not work with 'git grep' Yes, and deliberately so, to avoid having to think about things like "how would a multi-line match interact with 'grep -n'?" We behave as if we feed each line of the contents one line at a time to the matching engine that is chosen by the -P/-E/-G/-F optoins, so this limitation is unlikely to change. -- 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