From: Andrey Vlasovskikh <andrey.vlasovskikh@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:30:08
State: new
Subject: Add more filter expressions: ~=, !=, !~=
Message-Id: <cec60e25154133d3-0-artemis@vlan-laptop>

At this moment only exact `=` is supported in filters.

I propose adding the following constructs:

* `~=` for "contains"
* `!~=` for "does not contain"
* `!=` for "is not equal to"

Some examples of filters that use these constructs are provided below.

All the tickes by John Smith that are not fixed:

    $ hg ilist -p from~=Smith -p state!=fixed

All the tickets of John Smith by specifying his email:

    $ hg ilist -p to=~smith@example.com

All the tickes of high priority (i. e. of `critical` priority or not prioritized
ones), notice that the logical "or" should be used for joining the same
properties:

    $ hg ilist -p priority!=minor -p priority!=trivial