grep: remove redundant REG_NEWLINE when compiling fixed regex
Remove the redundant REG_NEWLINE regcomp() flag from the code that
compiles a fixed-string regular-expression.
The REG_NEWLINE causes metacharacters such as "." to match a newline,
since the basic_regex_quote_buf() function being called here escapes
all metacharacters using REG_NEWLINE is confusing and redundant.
The use of this flag was introduced as an unintended emergent property
of
793dc676e0 ("grep/icase: avoid kwsset when -F is specified",
2016-06-25).
That change amended the existing regflags, which were initialized to
REG_NEWLINE in init_grep_defaults() assuming a subsequent non-fixed
regcomp().
Manual testing reveals that this was always redundant, since no flags
of any use were inherited from opt->regflags even back
then.
793dc676e0 passes all tests with this on top:
diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c
index
627ae3e3e8..
89e84ed7fd 100644
--- a/grep.c
+++ b/grep.c
@@ -407,3 +407,3 @@ static void compile_fixed_regexp(struct grep_pat *p, struct grep_opt *opt)
basic_regex_quote_buf(&sb, p->pattern);
- regflags = opt->regflags & ~REG_EXTENDED;
+ regflags = 0;
if (opt->ignore_case)
Since this isn't used for anything and never was, remove it to reduce
confusion when reading this code.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>