branch.sh

#!/bin/bash                                                                                                           

# set -e # fail if any commands fails                                                                                 

# check if issue has the right format, if it fails, nothing will happen                                               
ISSUE=`echo $1 | grep -io '[[:alpha:]]\+-[[:digit:]]\+'`
echo "using $ISSUE"

## check issue exists on jira                                                                                         
SHOW=`jira show $ISSUE`
[[ $SHOW == "Issue Does Not Exist" ]] && echo "no issue found" && exit 0;

## show issue                                                                                                         
echo "$SHOW"

if [ `git branch --list $ISSUE` ]
then
   echo "Branch name $ISSUE already exists."
   git checkout $ISSUE
   exit 0
fi

# create and checkout a branch named after the issue (ie JIRA-1)                                                      
git checkout -b $ISSUE

# assign issue to me                                                                                                  
jira assign $ISSUE

# start working on issue (not that you might get bad transition warning)                                              
jira start $ISSUE

close.sh

#!/bin/bash                                                                                                           

# get current branch name                                                                                             
BRANCH=`git symbolic-ref --short -q HEAD`

ISSUE=$BRANCH
echo $ISSUE

# assume the branch name is also the issue name                                                                       
SUMMARY=`jira show -o summary $ISSUE`
echo $SUMMARY

# a last commit with summary                                                                                          
git commit -am "$SUMMARY"

# push to origin, grep the pull-request url                                                                           
git push -u --verbose  origin HEAD 2> tmp_file	

# grep pull request url from push command output                                                                      
PR_URL=`grep -io 'https://bitbucket.org/.*' tmp_file`
rm tmp_file

echo "PR URL: $PR_URL"

# mark issue done                                                                                                     
jira done $ISSUE

# magic : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3601515/how-to-check-if-a-variable-is-set-in-bash                        
if [ -z ${PR_URL} ]; then  echo "no pull request url found"; else open $PR_URL; fi