On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:18:33AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
> This reminds me of the way we test alot of the patch format already.
> But there we use standard grep as opposed to egrep.
> 
> git grep egrep doesn't show a lot of hits, but all commits
> that mention egrep found via 'git log --grep egrep' mention
> that there is some sort of portability issue for using egrep
> specifically.
> 
> Is the ^index a problem for standard grep, i.e. do we need to fix
> other places?

I think this is just me preferring a more careful match, but if there
are potential portability problems, I can reroll to use regular grep.  I
don't think which one we use matters much one way or the other in this
case, or in general.  We don't tend to produce a lot of potentially
ambiguous matches in our testsuite.

I think the uses in the commit messages tend to point out quirks in
command line options over specifically concerns about the use of egrep
itself.  I suspect the implementations that want egrep over grep -E (the
latter being POSIX) also lack many of the POSIX options that people want
to use, although I'm not aware of egrep itself being broken anywhere.
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