allow regex filtering on merge request search page

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Problem to solve

I want to filter target-branch = release/* instead of having to multiply my searches over all release/1.0, release/2.0 etc ...

Intended users

  • developers
  • release managers

User experience goal

the user should see all target branches in one page

Proposal

use of regex on value filter

Further details

when whe have multiples branches with same root name it will be fastest to manage MR

Permissions and Security

no restriction

Documentation

Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

when filtering for xxxx/* branch, MR search have to retrieve all MR for branches named xxxx/1, xxxx/2, xxxx/3 etc ...

What is the type of buyer?

MR managers :)

Is this a cross-stage feature?

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