Diomidis Spinellis <dds@xxxxxxx> writes: > Indeed, I removed the alternation handling functionality by accident. > I was not aware of the BRE-handling difference between the GNU and the > macOS native regex library. I think having git-grep behave the same > as grep(1) on each platform is consistent with the principle of least > astonishment (POLA). This would mean that on macOS plain git-grep > should use enhanced basic REs as proposed in René's patch. Thanks. I am fine with what René's patch does, which we already queued, then ;-) Let's merge 54463d32 (use enhanced basic regular expressions on macOS, 2023-01-08) down to 'next'.
