flavor of regex?

[jayveesea]

What flavor of regex does git-for-windows use? In particular I'm interested in using git log -L from Git Bash.

[dscho]

Git for Windows uses the same regular expressions as Git, which by default is the POSIX basic regular expression flavor. The -L :<funcname>:<path> option is parsed via the parse_range_funcname() function which uses the standard POSIX regcomp()/regexec() functions.

Git for Windows relies on the gnulib implementation that is vendored into compat/regex/.

Please note that Basic Regular Expressions ("BRE") are used here, not POSIX Extended ones.

Also please note that --perl-regexp has currently no effect on the -L option.

[jayveesea]

thx!

what about --perl-regexp with git grep?

[dscho]

Yep, Git for Windows is compiled with PCRE2, therefore the --perl-regexp option will work for git grep.