New Search Syntax for Title and Description Fields in Advanced Search
Problem
Today there is no way to perform a search for Issues/Epics/MRs that only match on the title. All searches will match the description or title.
Solution
We could introduce a syntax title:"Hello world"
that only matches documents by title.
Release notes
Prior to this release, searches would always search both descriptions and titles. This might create more search results than users might want, especially when needing to search for something that is a broad concept.
By adding the title and description fields to search syntax users can now specify if they want to just search the title or the description.
Thank you for the community contribution Paul-Sebastian Ungureanu!
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/advanced_search_syntax.html#using-the-advanced-search-syntax
Edited by John McGuire