A literal "{" should now be escaped in a pattern starting from perl versions >= v5.26. In perl v5.22, using a literal { in a regular expression was deprecated, and will emit a warning if it isn't escaped: {. In v5.26, this won't just warn, it'll cause a syntax error. (see https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.22.0/pod/perldelta.pod) Signed-off-by: Dominic Winkler d.winkler@xxxxxxxxxxx [d.winkler@xxxxxxxxxxx] Dominic Winkler (1): Fix perl error "unescaped left brace in regex" for paranoid update hook contrib/hooks/update-paranoid | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) base-commit: 5fa0f5238b0cd46cfe7f6fa76c3f526ea98148d9 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-335%2Fflexarts%2Fmaint-update-paranoid-perlv5.26-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-335/flexarts/maint-update-paranoid-perlv5.26-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/335 -- gitgitgadget