grep: remove regflags from the public grep_opt API

Refactor calls to the grep machinery to always pass opt.ignore_case &
opt.extended_regexp_option instead of setting the equivalent regflags
bits.

The bug fixed when making -i work with -P in commit 9e3cbc59d5 ("log:
make --regexp-ignore-case work with --perl-regexp", 2017-05-20) was
really just plastering over the code smell which this change fixes.

The reason for adding the extensive commentary here is that I
discovered some subtle complexity in implementing this that really
should be called out explicitly to future readers.

Before this change we'd rely on the difference between
`extended_regexp_option` and `regflags` to serve as a membrane between
our preliminary parsing of grep.extendedRegexp and grep.patternType,
and what we decided to do internally.

Now that those two are the same thing, it's necessary to unset
`extended_regexp_option` just before we commit in cases where both of
those config variables are set. See 84befcd0a4 ("grep: add a
grep.patternType configuration setting", 2012-08-03) for the code and
documentation related to that.

The explanation of why the if/else branches in
grep_commit_pattern_type() are ordered the way they are exists in that
commit message, but I think it's worth calling this subtlety out
explicitly with a comment for future readers.

Even though grep_commit_pattern_type() is the only caller of
grep_set_pattern_type_option() it's simpler to reset the
extended_regexp_option flag in the latter, since 2/3 branches in the
former would otherwise need to reset it, this way we can do it in one
place.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index e181ad1..207103d 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1362,7 +1362,6 @@ void init_revisions(struct rev_info *revs, const char *prefix)
 	init_grep_defaults();
 	grep_init(&revs->grep_filter, prefix);
 	revs->grep_filter.status_only = 1;
-	revs->grep_filter.regflags = REG_NEWLINE;
 
 	diff_setup(&revs->diffopt);
 	if (prefix && !revs->diffopt.prefix) {
@@ -2022,7 +2021,6 @@ static int handle_revision_opt(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **arg
 		revs->grep_filter.pattern_type_option = GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_ERE;
 	} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--regexp-ignore-case") || !strcmp(arg, "-i")) {
 		revs->grep_filter.ignore_case = 1;
-		revs->grep_filter.regflags |= REG_ICASE;
 		DIFF_OPT_SET(&revs->diffopt, PICKAXE_IGNORE_CASE);
 	} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--fixed-strings") || !strcmp(arg, "-F")) {
 		revs->grep_filter.pattern_type_option = GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_FIXED;