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Last active April 13, 2023 17:26

Automatically Prepend a Jira Issue ID to Git Commit Messages

Use a git hook to match a Jira issue ID from the current branch, and prepend it to every commit message

Assuming the current branch contains a Jira issue ID, you can use a git hook script to prepend it to every commit message.

  1. Create an empty commit-msg git hook file, and make it executable. From your project's root directory:

     install -b -m 755 /dev/null .git/hooks/commit-msg

  2. Save the following script to the newly-created .git/hooks/commit-msg file: