summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/githooks.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>2017-05-20 21:42:05 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-05-21 08:25:37 +0900
commitd048cb13c237655d7637c36b5cbe1eed263987c8 (patch)
treee95b558ee2eee941d5aaf5f7e848e2d87a29c9b1 /Documentation/githooks.txt
parentMakefile & configure: reword inaccurate comment about PCRE (diff)
downloadtgif-d048cb13c237655d7637c36b5cbe1eed263987c8.tar.xz
grep & rev-list doc: stop promising libpcre for --perl-regexp
Stop promising in our grep & rev-list options documentation that we're always going to be using libpcre when given the --perl-regexp option. Instead talk about using "Perl-compatible regular expressions" and using these types of patterns using "a compile-time dependency". Saying "libpcre" means that we're talking about libpcre.so, which is always going to be v1. This change is part of an ongoing saga to add support for libpcre2, which comes with PCRE v2. In the future we might use some completely unrelated library to provide perl-compatible regular expression support. By wording the documentation differently and not promising any specific version of PCRE or even PCRE at all we have more wiggle room to change the implementation. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/githooks.txt')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions