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authorHiroyuki Sato <sathiroyuki@gmail.com>2017-09-03 12:58:56 +0900
committerHiroyuki Sato <sathiroyuki@gmail.com>2017-09-03 12:58:56 +0900
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Add `Searching for specific terms` section
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@@ -40,6 +40,18 @@ The same process is valid for merge requests. Navigate to your project's **Merge
and click **Search or filter results...**. Merge requests can be filtered by author, assignee,
milestone, and label.
+### Searching for specific terms
+
+You can filter issues by specific terms included in titles or descriptions.
+
+* Syntax
+ * Searches look for all the words in a query, in any order - e.g.: searching
+ issues for `display bug` will return all issues matching both those words, in any order.
+ * To find the exact term, use double quotes: `"display bug"`
+* Limitation
+ * For a performance reason, the terms shorter than 3 chars are ignored - e.g.: searching
+ issues for `included in titles` is same with `included titles`
+
### Issues and merge requests per group
Similar to **Issues and merge requests per project**, you can also search for issues