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by whizzter 1743 days ago
Somebody probably put in a regexp with .mov$ , however for regexps the dot (.) matches everything (and $ matches end) so the i in asimov is eaten regardless and then the rest of the match succeeds.
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You can see the fix they made in the linked MR.

It wasn't a regex, they just did a generic "ends with" check.