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diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 2d27969057..c89fb569e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -271,6 +271,23 @@ providing this option will cause it to die. -f <file>:: Read patterns from <file>, one per line. ++ +Passing the pattern via <file> allows for providing a search pattern +containing a \0. ++ +Not all pattern types support patterns containing \0. Git will error +out if a given pattern type can't support such a pattern. The +`--perl-regexp` pattern type when compiled against the PCRE v2 backend +has the widest support for these types of patterns. ++ +In versions of Git before 2.23.0 patterns containing \0 would be +silently considered fixed. This was never documented, there were also +odd and undocumented interactions between e.g. non-ASCII patterns +containing \0 and `--ignore-case`. ++ +In future versions we may learn to support patterns containing \0 for +more search backends, until then we'll die when the pattern type in +question doesn't support them. -e:: The next parameter is the pattern. This option has to be |