Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.23.0-606-g08da
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@@ -1301,6 +1301,19 @@ <p> Read patterns from <file>, one per line. </p> +<div class="paragraph"><p>Passing the pattern via <file> allows for providing a search pattern +containing a \0.</p></div> +<div class="paragraph"><p>Not all pattern types support patterns containing \0. Git will error +out if a given pattern type can’t support such a pattern. The +<code>--perl-regexp</code> pattern type when compiled against the PCRE v2 backend +has the widest support for these types of patterns.</p></div> +<div class="paragraph"><p>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 <code>--ignore-case</code>.</p></div> +<div class="paragraph"><p>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.</p></div> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1"> -e @@ -1440,7 +1453,7 @@ <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> Last updated - 2019-04-16 21:48:13 JST + 2019-10-11 16:25:30 JST </div> </div> </body>