Subject: bug#22245: [bug-diffutils] bug#22245: [[email-masked]: Bug#809007: diffutils: FTBFS: FAIL: test-update-copyright.sh]

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:15:43 -0800

Santiago Vila wrote:
> I find a little bit odd that only the left brace is escaped in
> the git commit above. Sure, it will remove the warning about the
> left brace, but it looks a little bit inconsistent.

It depends on which sort of consistency one wants. I mildly prefer omitting 
backslashes when not needed, as this helps avoid usages like:

grep '\[.*\]' *.c

which has undefined behavior due to the '\]'. Admittedly that's a POSIX regular 
expression, not Perl.