Automatically prepend git commit with JIRA code from branch name

In my company we use Jira, and our branch's name follows this convention CODE-123-Something-descriptive-after And I want to have that code automatically whenever I commit with message. So, you can exclude the grep part if you want to get the whole branch name

Copy the script below, name it prepare-commit-msg and put it under git/hooks folder. Make sure you make it executable by chmod 755 your/path/prepare-commit-msg

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$BRANCHES_TO_SKIP" ]; then
  BRANCHES_TO_SKIP=(master main develop dev test hotfix stage)
fi

BRANCH_NAME=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD | grep -oE "([a-zA-Z]+)-(\d+)" | awk '{print $1}')
BRANCH_NAME="${BRANCH_NAME##*/}"

BRANCH_EXCLUDED=$(printf "%s\n" "${BRANCHES_TO_SKIP[@]}" | grep -c "^$BRANCH_NAME$")
BRANCH_IN_COMMIT=$(grep -c "\[$BRANCH_NAME\]" $1)

if [ -n "$BRANCH_NAME" ] && ! [[ $BRANCH_EXCLUDED -eq 1 ]] && ! [[ $BRANCH_IN_COMMIT -ge 1 ]]; then 
  sed -i.bak -e "1s/^/[$BRANCH_NAME] /" $1
fi

Now whenever I commit, I will have this format in git log:

commit 586f72e2a3d63bbc092f8a7bd070e83997b1717c (HEAD -> TEST-123-something-super-long-here)

Author: Sang Dang <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Jul 15 12:26:17 2021 +0300

    [TEST-123] fix: No more YOLO! in commit, Sang.

Enjoy!

sangdth/prepare-commit-msg.md