id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
2673	[PATCH] key=value operator for search action	jttt	team	"New operator for search action with following semantics:

tagName=tagValue - matches tag with key=tagName and value=tagValue. It's exact match, no partial matches or special key types as with ':' operator[[BR]]
tagName=* - key with any value[[BR]]
tagName= - tagName doesn't exists[[BR]]
*=tagValue - any tag with value = tagValue[[BR]]
*=* - any tag[[BR]]
*= -untagged

The main difference between '=' and ':' is that ':' has some special keys that act differently (type,user,id,modified,...) and ':' is doing fulltext search while '=' is for exact match.

Some of '=' operator features can be emulated by ':' with regular expressions, for example !^type$:!^route$, but using regual expression for such a simple thing is not quite comfortable and not everybody knows regual expressions.

Other features can't be afaik emulated, for example ""tagName="" (meaning tag with tagName doesn't exist)"	enhancement	closed	major		Core		fixed