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When multiple regular expressions are concatenated with "\n", they were
traditionally AND'ed together, and only a line that matches _all_ of them
is taken as a match. This however is unwieldy when multiple regexp
feature is used to specify alternatives.
This fixes the semantics to take the first match. A nagative pattern, if
matches, makes the line to fail as before. A match with a positive
pattern will be the final match, and what it captures in $1 is used as the
hunk header comment.
We could write alternatives using "|" in ERE, but the machinery can only
use captured $1 as the hunk header comment (or $0 if there is no match in
$1), so you cannot write:
"junk ( A | B ) | garbage ( C | D )"
and expect both "junk" and "garbage" to get stripped with the existing
code. With this fix, you can write it as:
"junk ( A | B ) \n garbage ( C | D )"
and the way capture works would match the user expectation more
naturally.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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