[ic] mv_exact_match not working

[Grant]

>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=s
>ubcat/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.

Mike, do you think you will apply it to a stable release in the
future/present?  I understand why you wouldn't want to change people's
search results, but it is a bug right?

- Grant