In my case, I compiled git with pcre2 support, using third party PCRE2 library: https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2 and PCRE and multibyte support in git works with it just fine. E.g. adding and committing a file: ``` #!/usr/bin/env node console.log('顔🏁'); ``` and searching it with git log --all -p -G '顔🏁’ works. Again, perhaps the solution here is to distinguish two cases: 1. git is compiled with native regex library on macOS 2. git is compiled with third party regex library with PCRE and multibyte support on macOS in case 2 everything works. Case 1 is perhaps more work on macOS and a feature request. > On Mar 27, 2023, at 12:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mario Grgic <mario_grgic@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Confirming that putting back NO_REGEX = YesPlease in the Makefile fixes the problem. I.e. the following patch fixes it for me: >> >> --- Makefile 2023-03-25 11:24:01.000000000 -0400 >> +++ Makefile.patched 2023-03-25 11:25:11.000000000 -0400 >> @@ -1554,6 +1554,7 @@ >> APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO = YesPlease >> COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DAPPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO >> endif >> + NO_REGEX = YesPlease >> PTHREAD_LIBS = >> endif > > It will unfortunately break multibyte support on macOS by reverting > what 1819ad32 (grep: fix multibyte regex handling under macOS, > 2022-08-26) did.
