[ic] mv_exact_match not working

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting Jeff Dafoe (jeff@badtz-maru.com):
> > However, if I understand you guys correctly, what you really want here is
> > "op=eq". This imposes equality between the search text and a db text field
> > thereby making "shaving" and "shaving cream" distinct results.
> 
> It doesn't, though.  On my 4.8.6 installation:
> 
> scan/fi=products/st=text/sf=subcat/se=Shaving/op=eq/nu=0/ml=12/tf=subcat/rf=
> *
> 
>     Returns "Shaving" and "Shaving Tools".  Adding em=1 returns the same
> thing also.  However, changing it to:
> 
> /scan/fi=products/st=text/sf=subcat/se=Shaving/op=eq/co=1/os=1/nu=0/ml=12/tf
> =subcat/rf=*
> 
>     does work, and this is the fix described in the aforementioned message.
> The message also contained a patch, which was from February so I assumed it
> was a 4.8.x patch, but when I looked at the code in that area it doesn't
> match.
> 

I probably decided not to apply it to stable because it had the
potential for changing people's search results. That is typically
the decision I make -- when in doubt, if it will change the display
I don't do it within a stable tree.

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