Add ticket number to git commit automatically

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Most of ticket tracker like Github, pivotal tracker have function to connect your commit to ticket(story). But every time when you commit copy and paste that of ticket number is annoy…

So I created a script using git hook to add ticket number to your commit automatically.

Script

$ mkdir -p ~/.git-templates/hooks $ touch ~/.git-templates/hooks/prepare-commit-msg $ chmod u+x ~/.git-templates/hooks/prepare-commit-msg 

Then you can copy & paste this script to prepare-commit-msg

#!/bin/sh LF=$'\\\x0A' BRANCH_NAME=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD) if [[$BRANCH_NAME =~ .*\/[0-9]* ]]; then PREFIX=$(echo $BRANCH_NAME | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\/\([0-9]*\)/\1/') NUMBER=$(echo $BRANCH_NAME | sed -e 's/\(.*\)\/\([0-9]*\)/\2/') if [$PREFIX = 'story']; then MESSAGE="[#$NUMBER]" else MESSAGE="GH-$NUMBER" fi if [$NUMBER]; then sed -i.back "1s/^/$LF$LF$MESSAGE$LF/" "$1" fi fi 

Configuration

To enable this script run this command.

$ git config core.hooksPath ~/.git-templates/hooks/ 

Usage

This script expects that your branch is named using this format

Pivotal Tracker

story/1111 

Github

issue/1111 fix/1111 feature/1111 

When every time you commit script add that number using this format to you commit !!

Pivotal Tracker

[#1111] 

Github

GH-1111