"Steven Jeuris via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > As before, I ran into many regex limitations (no possessive quantifiers, > no lookahead). It also seems different regex evaluators are used on > different test runs. Which one does git diff use? Maybe it is about time > to update this? E.g., if speed is a concern, possessive quantifiers can > speed up search. When you make regcomp(3) and regexec(3) calls, you'll be using the system library that supplies them. IOW, we use whatever is on the system.
