On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 23:20 -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > I do have an open question regarding how we're going about testing for the end > of the header lines. Since we're not just testing for an empty line to > separate > headers and body, there is clearly more going on here - but I'm not sure what > it > is ... so I can't be sure this doesn't have an unintended consequence. > > > + $rawline =~ /^(?:commit\b|from\b|[\w-]+:)/i)) { > > This appears to be an unrelated change, introducing the non-capturing-group > (?:) and dropping the superfluous .*$ postfix. Did I get that right?
Exactly right. The capturing of the initial bit of the match and testing of the rest of the line is simply unnecessary. I frequently make localized changes like that when I notice them. It's not a problem. cheers, Joe