Github commit message tagging

Question

Is it possible to assign tickets or add labels to github issues in a commit message?

Example:

@usera ready for you to sign off for #Testing

where @usera is a user and #Testing is a label ?

Answer 1

Well unfortunately it looks like it isn't possible without some hackery. I put together a simple sinatra app (that you can throw on heroku) to handle a few new handlers

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To assign to a user you can do:

git commit -a -m 'updates #23 assigned =USERNAME';

To add labels you can do:

git commit -a -m 'updates #23 ~QA ~testing'

You can also mix and match:

git commit -a -m 'updates #23 ~QA ~testing =QAUSER'

Answer 2

I have not seen support for referencing text labels or users in commit messages. However, you can reference an issue by its number in a commit message:

ready for you to sign off for #341

If there is an Issue #341 in your GitHub project, GitHub will recognize that #341 references an existing Issue, and will link to it.

For more info on referencing issues in commit messages: https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation

An example of what I have described from the above link:

• Mentioning an issue in a commit