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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Test failures when Git is built with libpcre and grep is built without it
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:05:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871swcjsd3.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58736B2A.40003@adelielinux.org> (A. Wilcox's message of "Mon, 9 Jan 2017 04:51:22 -0600")

On Jan 09 2017, "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org> wrote:

> Interestingly enough, you seem to be right.  The failure is very
> bizarre and has nothing to do with system /bin/grep:
>
> test_must_fail: command succeeded: git grep -G -F -P -E a\x{2b}b\x{2a}c ab
> not ok 142 - grep -G -F -P -E pattern
> #
> #               >empty &&
> #               test_must_fail git grep -G -F -P -E "a\x{2b}b\x{2a}c"
> ab >actual &&
> #               test_cmp empty actual
> #
>
> However:
>
> elaine trash directory.t7810-grep # git grep -G -F -P -E
> a\x{2b}b\x{2a}c ab >actual

You need to quote the regexp argument, see the line starting with
"test_must_fail" above.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-09 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-01  4:59 Test failures when Git is built with libpcre and grep is built without it A. Wilcox
2017-01-01 10:19 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-01-02  6:53 ` Jeff King
2017-01-09 10:51   ` A. Wilcox
2017-01-09 11:27     ` Jeff King
2017-01-09 13:05     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2017-01-09 21:33       ` Jeff King
2017-01-10 10:36         ` A. Wilcox
2017-01-10 11:40           ` [musl] " Szabolcs Nagy
2017-01-11 10:04             ` Jeff King
2017-01-11 11:10               ` [PATCH] t7810: avoid assumption about invalid regex syntax Jeff King
2017-01-11 20:49               ` [musl] Re: Test failures when Git is built with libpcre and grep is built without it Junio C Hamano

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