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

The web interface option is to branch off a branch but merge back to master in the pull request.

eg:

1. click create branch in jira
2. set the repo, branch type and name to what you want
3. set the branch from to be the existing branch
4. click create
5. when creating a pull request set the destination branch to what you want eg master