Purpose

If you have to create a jira tickets for your commits, you can use this tool to automate the process.

Just replace git commit with git jira.

Installation

Copy git-jira into your $PATH.

Install jq (apt-get install jq).

How it works

It will take the brief description of your git commit message as ticket title and will put the body of the git commit message into the description.

The ticket key will get put in front of your git commit message.

For example: git jira -m "Bar" will create a ticket in the project FOO (see setup description) and will put the newly created ticket key (e.g. FOO-123) in front of the commit message: FOO-123: Bar - without specifying the body the description in the newly created ticket will stay empty.

Parameters are just forwarded to git commit - but the ticket is only created when using -m "message".

Setup

Make sure to configure your jira related data before.

set the jira project name

git config jira.project <project>

set the jira base url

git config jira.url https://jira

set the jira login data

git config jira.password <pwd>
git config jira.username <user>