Jira: assign an existing git branch to an issue

Question

In JIRA connected with STASH you can create a feature branch for an issue using the button \'create branch\'. (That is nice to track the commits in this issue.)

If a dev

Answer 1

Update

As for january 2017 if you have an already exiting branch and you want to attach it to a Jira Issue you can do the following:

1. Checkout to the branch you want to rename

2. Execute the following command
   

   git branch -m JIRA_ISSUE_ID-Whatever

Assuming that mine Jira issue is SO-01 I can do the following:

git branch -m SO-01-Whatever

This will change the name locally, push it to remote with:

git push origin :old_name

Command Syntax

git branch (-m | -M) [] 

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