pcre regexps in git?

Anthony Heading ajrh@ajrh.net
Thu Feb 24 21:19:13 GMT 2022

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Hi,
I appreciate this is just a birthday wish-list item, but...
% git grep -P hopeful...
fatal: cannot use Perl-compatible regexes when not compiled with USE_LIBPCRE
It would be lovely (well, at least for me) if this could work.

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