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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] t: remove \{m,n\} from BRE grep usage
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:06:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpmfo38lb.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ebaf6cec07e3a07c969c456e93aa9d4464f75548.1663765176.git.congdanhqx@gmail.com> ("Đoàn Trần Công Danh"'s message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2022 20:02:30 +0700")

Đoàn Trần Công Danh  <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:

> The CodingGuidelines says we should avoid \{m,n\} in BRE usage.
> And their usages in our code base is limited, and subjectively
> hard to read.
>
> Replace them with ERE.

OK.  I do not personally mind allowing \{0,1\} in BRE (which would
give us a portable way to express '?'), but we are not forbidding
ERE in any way, so I am OK with the direction.

> Except for "0\{40\}" which would be changed to "$ZERO_OID",
> which is a better value for testing with:
> GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH=sha256

Absolutely.  This alone is a change worth doing regardless of the
portability issues.

> Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
> ---
>
>  Phillip Wood said:
>  > \{m,n\} is valid in a posix BRE[1]. If we're already using it without
>  > anyone
>  > complaining I think it would be better to update CodingGuidlines to allow
>  > it.
>
>  Yes, I agree. However, I think our usage of \{m,n\} is limited.
>  Let's skip the lifting for now.

OK.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-21 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-21 13:02 [PATCH v2 0/4] allow "grep -E", remove {e,f}grep usage Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2022-09-21 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] CodingGuidelines: allow grep -E Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2022-09-21 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] t: remove \{m,n\} from BRE grep usage Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2022-09-21 18:06   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-09-21 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] t: convert egrep usage to "grep -E" Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2022-09-21 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] t: convert fgrep usage to "grep -F" Đoàn Trần Công Danh

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