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

This is no longer the case. With a common setup between bitbucket and Jira, simply including the issue ID in the commit message will create a link between the commit, and thus the branch, and the issue in Jira.

Answer 2

I just tested the theory that having the Jira ID in the branch name creates an automatic link.
It does.

To see the effect, you have to push a commit. Then the branch will show up in the Jira. The branch shows up in Jira, but to get an individual commit to show up in Jira I have to refer to the Jira ID in the commit message.

Answer 3

If you include the JIRA-ID in the branch name, by creating out of an existing commit, all you have to do is:

git push --set-upstream origin <new-branch-name>

and the branch is attached to the JIRA ticket.

Answer 4

ex-Stash developer here.

Yes and no. Creating the branch though the UI is just a convenience. The important thing is that the name contains the JIRA key. If only one developer is working on the branch, it's fairly easy to just rename (delete + add) a branch with the appropriate name.

git checkout old-branch
git push -u origin old-branch:JIRAKEY-1234-something
git push origin :old-branch

Does that help?

Answer 5

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) [<oldbranch>] <newbranch>

Related question for more info

Answer 6

Just add a new commit with the Jira issue key in the commit message