Re: BUG: git grep behave oddly with alternatives

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Am 03.01.23 um 10:53 schrieb Marco Nenciarini:
> I've installed latest git from brew and suddenly git grep started behaving oddly when using alternatives.
>
> ```
> $ echo abd > test.file
> $ git grep --untracked 'a\(b\|c\)d' test.file
> $ git grep --untracked 'a\(b\)d' test.file
> test.file:abd
> ```
>
> It should have matched in both cases.
>
>
> If I switch to exented pattern it starts working again
>
> ```
> $ git grep --untracked -E 'a(b|c)d' test.file
> test.file:abd
> ```

This is expected: Basic regular expressions don't support alternation.

Under which circumstances did it work for you without -E or -P?

>
> [System Info]
> git version:
> git version 2.39.0
> cpu: x86_64
> no commit associated with this build
> sizeof-long: 8
> sizeof-size_t: 8
> shell-path: /bin/sh
> feature: fsmonitor--daemon
> uname: Darwin 22.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.2.0: Fri Nov 11 02:08:47 PST 2022; root:xnu-8792.61.2~4/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
> compiler info: clang: 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202)
> libc info: no libc information available
> $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /usr/local/bin/bash
>
>





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