From 6395eb9ab6e12650e1f25eaab34cbc879672b670 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:20:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Explain the empty req_uri branch.  Props duck_. fixes #17177

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@18467 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/class-wp.php | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/wp-includes/class-wp.php b/wp-includes/class-wp.php
index 9e4b769b7c..deea1e6df8 100644
--- a/wp-includes/class-wp.php
+++ b/wp-includes/class-wp.php
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ class WP {
 			// Look for matches.
 			$request_match = $request;
 			if ( empty( $req_uri ) ) {
+				// An empty request could only match against ^$ regex
 				if ( isset( $rewrite['$'] ) ) {
 					$this->matched_rule = '$';
 					$query = $rewrite['$'];